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Topics in the General Theory of Structures (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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Topics in the General Theory of Structures (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: Theory and Decision Library D:, 1
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This volume is about "Structure." The search for "structure,"
always the pursuit of sciences within their specific areas and
perspectives, is witnessing these days a dra matic revolution. The
coexistence and interaction of so many structures (atoms, hu mans,
cosmos and all that there is in between) would be unconceivable
according to many experts, if there were not, behind it all, some
gen eral organizational principle. s that (at least in some
asymptotic way) make possible so many equilibria among species and
natural objects, fan tastically tuned to an extremely high degree
of precision. The evidence accumulates to an increasingly
impressive degree; a concrete example comes from physics, whose
constant aim always was and is that of searching for "ultimate
laws," out of which everything should follow, from quarks to the
cosmos. Our notions and philosophy have un dergone major
revolutions, whenever the "unthinkable" has been changed by its
wonderful endeavours into "fact." Well, it is just from physics
that evidence comes: even if the "ultimate" could be reached, it
would not in any way be a terminal point. When "complexity" comes
into the game, entirely new notions have to be invented; they all
have to do with "structure," though this time in a much wider sense
than would have been understood a decade or so ago."
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