From Instability to Intelligence: Complexity and Predictability in Nonlinear Dynamics

by Joseph P. Zbilut, Michail Zak, Ronald E. Meyers Michail Zak Joseph P. Zbilut

So far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -A. Einstein The word "instability" in day-to-day language is associated with some thing going wrong or being abnormal: exponential growth of cancer cells, irrational behavior of a patient, collapse of a structure, etc. This book, however, is about "good" instabilities, which lead to change, evolution, progress, creativity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540630554
• ISBN13: 9783540630555
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 552 Pages