More Than the Sum of the Parts: Complexity in Physics and Beyond (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192864178)

From physics to information theory and cosmology, from the structure of animal societies to the linguistic analysis of human writing, systems consisting of many interacting constituents often show a collective behaviour not predictable from the interaction of the individual constituents. In More than the Sum of the Parts, Helmut Satz addresses different forms of this complex behaviour, which have been thoroughly investigated only in the past decades. Although these studies originate in physics, the behaviour is found to be universal, ranging from the structure of the early universe to the formation of flocks of birds, and to the frequency of words in literary texts. Complexity is thus becoming an increasingly important interdisciplinary field for future scientific research.

In a conceptual and non-technical way, Satz opens up this exciting field for a general readership and those studying any field of the natural sciences.

Author: Helmut Satz
ISBN-10: 0192864173
ISBN-13: 9780192864178
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2022
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.72w x 0.54d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023