
Disrupted Networks: From Physics To Climate Change
FROM PHY TO ...(V13)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 22. March 2010
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-981-4304-30-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change.This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4304-30-6 (9789814304306)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Why a Science of Networks?; Data; Information; Knowledge; A World of Disrupted Networks.