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ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems (Hardcover, 2014)
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ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems (Hardcover, 2014)
Series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 8
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The book you hold in your hands is the outcome of the "ISCS 2013:
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems" held at the
historical capital of Bohemia as a continuation of our series of
symposia in the science of complex systems. Prague, one of the most
beautiful European cities, has its own beautiful genius loci. Here,
a great number of important discoveries were made and many
important scientists spent fruitful and creative years to leave
unforgettable traces. The perhaps most significant period was the
time of Rudolf II who was a great supporter of the art and the
science and attracted a great number of prominent minds to Prague.
This trend would continue. Tycho Brahe, Niels Henrik Abel, Johannes
Kepler, Bernard Bolzano, August Cauchy Christian Doppler, Ernst
Mach, Albert Einstein and many others followed developing
fundamental mathematical and physical theories or expanding them.
Thus in the beginning of the 17th century, Kepler formulated here
the first two of his three laws of planetary motion on the basis of
Tycho Brahe's observations. In the 19th century, nowhere
differentiable continuous functions (of a fractal character) were
constructed here by Bolzano along with a treatise on infinite sets,
titled "Paradoxes of Infinity" (1851). Weierstrass would later
publish a similar function in 1872. In 1842, Doppler as a professor
of mathematics at the Technical University of Prague here first
lectured about a physical effect to bear his name later. And the
epoch-making physicist Albert Einstein - while being a chaired
professor of theoretical physics at the German University of Prague
- arrived at the decisive steps of his later finished theory of
general relativity during the years 1911-1912. In Prague, also many
famous philosophers and writers accomplished their works; for
instance, playwright arel ape coined the word "robot" in Prague
("robot" comes from the Czech word "robota" which means "forced
labor").
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