The Swings of Science From Complexity to Simplicity and Back /

• Main Author: Pismen, Len (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Computational complexity.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Popular Science in Physics.; Complex Systems.; Complexity.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.

This book is a personal account of some aspects of the emergence of modern science, mostly from the viewpoint of those branches of physics which provided the much needed paradigm shift of "more is different" that heralded the advent of complexity science as an antidote to the purely reduct...

Table of Contents:

• Swings Through the Ages
• Continuum Mechanics
• Continuum Beyond Mechanics
• From Continuum to Atoms
• Condensed Matter
• Quantum Matter
• Broken symmetry
• Complexity Simplified
• Complexity Strikes Back
• Quo Vadis?