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Fractional Calculus View of Complexity - Tomorrow's Science (Hardcover): Bruce J. West Fractional Calculus View of Complexity - Tomorrow's Science (Hardcover)
Bruce J. West
R3,258 Discovery Miles 32 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is not a text devoted to a pedagogical presentation of a specialized topic nor is it a monograph focused on the author's area of research. It accomplishes both these things while providing a rationale for why the reader ought to be interested in learning about fractional calculus. This book is for researchers who has heard about many of these scientifically exotic activities, but could not see how they fit into their own scientific interests, or how they could be made compatible with the way they understand science. It is also for beginners who have not yet decided where their scientific talents could be most productively applied. The book provides insight into the long-term direction of science and show how to develop the skills necessary to successfully do research in the twenty-first century.

Nature's Patterns and the Fractional Calculus (Hardcover): Bruce J. West Nature's Patterns and the Fractional Calculus (Hardcover)
Bruce J. West
R4,279 Discovery Miles 42 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Complexity increases with increasing system size in everything from organisms to organizations. The nonlinear dependence of a system's functionality on its size, by means of an allometry relation, is argued to be a consequence of their joint dependency on complexity (information). In turn, complexity is proven to be the source of allometry and to provide a new kind of force entailed by a system's information gradient. Based on first principles, the scaling behavior of the probability density function is determined by the exact solution to a set of fractional differential equations. The resulting lowest order moments in system size and functionality gives rise to the empirical allometry relations. Taking examples from various topics in nature, the book is of interest to researchers in applied mathematics, as well as, investigators in the natural, social, physical and life sciences. Contents Complexity Empirical allometry Statistics, scaling and simulation Allometry theories Strange kinetics Fractional probability calculus

Networks of Echoes - Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014):... Networks of Echoes - Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska, Paolo Grigolini
R2,244 Discovery Miles 22 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws. The phenomena of interest are not arcane events that we encounter only fleetingly, but are events that dominate our lives. We examine how this intermittent statistical behavior intertwines itself with what appears to be the organized activity of social groups. The book is structured as answers to a sequence of questions such as: How are decisions reached in elections and boardrooms? How is the stability of a society undermined by zealots and committed minorities and how is that stability re-established? Can we learn to answer such questions about human behavior by studying the way flocks of birds retain their formation when eluding a predator? These questions and others are answered using a generic model of a complex dynamic network-one whose global behavior is determined by a symmetric interaction among individuals based on social imitation. The complexity of the network is manifest in time series resulting from self-organized critical dynamics that have divergent first and second moments, are non-stationary, non-ergodic and non-Poisson. How phase transitions in the network dynamics influence such activity as decision making is a fascinating story and provides a context for introducing many of the mathematical ideas necessary for understanding complex networks in general. The decision making model (DMM) is selected to emphasize that there are features of complex webs that supersede specific mechanisms and need to be understood from a general perspective. This insightful overview of recent tools and their uses may serve as an introduction and curriculum guide in related courses.

Networks of Echoes - Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska,... Networks of Echoes - Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska, Paolo Grigolini
R2,582 Discovery Miles 25 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders" is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws. The phenomena of interest are not arcane events that we encounter only fleetingly, but are events that dominate our lives. We examine how this intermittent statistical behavior intertwines itself with what appears to be the organized activity of social groups. The book is structured as answers to a sequence of questions such as: How are decisions reached in elections and boardrooms? How is the stability of a society undermined by zealots and committed minorities and how is that stability re-established? Can we learn to answer such questions about human behavior by studying the way flocks of birds retain their formation when eluding a predator? These questions and others are answered using a generic model of a complex dynamic network one whose global behavior is determined by a symmetric interaction among individuals based on social imitation. The complexity of the network is manifest in time series resulting from self-organized critical dynamics that have divergent first and second moments, are non-stationary, non-ergodic and non-Poisson. How phase transitions in the network dynamics influence such activity as decision making is a fascinating story and provides a context for introducing many of the mathematical ideas necessary for understanding complex networks in general. The decision making model (DMM) is selected to emphasize that there are features of complex webs that supersede specific mechanisms and need to be understood from a general perspective. This insightful overview of recent tools and their uses may serve as an introduction and curriculum guide in related courses."

Fractional Calculus View of Complexity - Tomorrow's Science (Paperback): Bruce J. West Fractional Calculus View of Complexity - Tomorrow's Science (Paperback)
Bruce J. West
R1,482 Discovery Miles 14 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is not a text devoted to a pedagogical presentation of a specialized topic nor is it a monograph focused on the author's area of research. It accomplishes both these things while providing a rationale for why the reader ought to be interested in learning about fractional calculus. This book is for researchers who has heard about many of these scientifically exotic activities, but could not see how they fit into their own scientific interests, or how they could be made compatible with the way they understand science. It is also for beginners who have not yet decided where their scientific talents could be most productively applied. The book provides insight into the long-term direction of science and show how to develop the skills necessary to successfully do research in the twenty-first century.

An Essay on the Importance of Being Nonlinear (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985): Bruce J. West An Essay on the Importance of Being Nonlinear (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Bruce J. West
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of my favorite quotes is from a letter of Charles Darwin (1887): "I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is proof of earnestness, and that you do not form your opinions without undergoing labour of some kind. " It is not clear if this private opinion of Darwin was one that he held to be absolutely true, or was one of those opinions that, as with most of us, coincides with our "bad days," but is replaced with a more optimistic view on our "good days. " I hold the sense of the statement to be true in general, but not with regard to scientists never reading each other's work. Even if that were true however, the present essay. would still have been written as a proof of earnestness. This essay outlines my personal view of how nonlinear mathematics may be of value in formulating models outside the physical sciences. This perspective has developed over a number of years during which time I have repeatedly been amazed at how an "accepted" model would fail to faithfully characterize the full range of avail able data because of its implicit or explicit dependence on linear concepts. This essay is intended to demonstrate how linear ideas have come to dominate and therefore limit a scientist's ability to understand any given class of phenomena."

Fractional Calculus and the Future of Science (Hardcover): Bruce J. West Fractional Calculus and the Future of Science (Hardcover)
Bruce J. West
R2,472 R2,002 Discovery Miles 20 020 Save R470 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crucial Events: Why Are Catastrophes Never Expected? (Hardcover): Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini Crucial Events: Why Are Catastrophes Never Expected? (Hardcover)
Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini
R2,416 Discovery Miles 24 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A nonsimple (complex) system indicates a mix of crucial and non-crucial events, with very different statistical properties. It is the crucial events that determine the efficiency of information exchange between complex networks. For a large class of nonsimple systems, crucial events determine catastrophic failures - from heart attacks to stock market crashes.This interesting book outlines a data processing technique that separates the effects of the crucial from those of the non-crucial events in nonsimple time series extracted from physical, social and living systems. Adopting an informal conversational style, without sacrificing the clarity necessary to explain, the contents will lead the reader through concepts such as fractals, complexity and randomness, self-organized criticality, fractional-order differential equations of motion, and crucial events, always with an eye to helping to interpret what mathematics usually does in the development of new scientific knowledge.Both researchers and novitiate will find Crucial Events useful in learning more about the science of nonsimplicity.

Simplifying Complexity - Life is Uncertain, Unfair and Unequal (Paperback): Bruce J. West Simplifying Complexity - Life is Uncertain, Unfair and Unequal (Paperback)
Bruce J. West
R2,960 R2,739 Discovery Miles 27 390 Save R221 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (Paperback): Bruce J. West Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (Paperback)
Bruce J. West
R2,082 Discovery Miles 20 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the application of the concepts of fractals and chaos to biomedical phenomena. In particular, it argues against the outdated notion of homeostasis; using biomedical data sets and modern mathematical concepts, the author attempts to convince the reader that life is at least a homeodynamic process with multiple states - each being capable of survival. Although relying heavily on the new mathematical ideas, the author has attempted to make the book self-contained. The mathematics is developed in a biological context and mathematical formulation for its own sake is avoided. In this book, the phenomena to be explained motivate the mathematical development rather than the other way round.

Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (Hardcover): Bruce J. West Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (Hardcover)
Bruce J. West
R3,868 Discovery Miles 38 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the application of the concepts of fractals and chaos to biomedical phenomena. In particular, it argues against the outdated notion of homeostasis; using biomedical data sets and modern mathematical concepts, the author attempts to convince the reader that life is at least a homeodynamic process with multiple states - each being capable of survival. Although relying heavily on the new mathematical ideas, the author has attempted to make the book self-contained. The mathematics is developed in a biological context and mathematical formulation for its own sake is avoided. In this book, the phenomena to be explained motivate the mathematical development rather than the other way round.

Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (2nd Edition) (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Bruce J. West Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (2nd Edition) (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Bruce J. West
R1,821 Discovery Miles 18 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics.In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.

Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application Of Network Science (Hardcover): Paolo Grigolini, Bruce J. West Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application Of Network Science (Hardcover)
Paolo Grigolini, Bruce J. West
R2,996 Discovery Miles 29 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This invaluable book captures the proceedings of a workshop that brought together a group of distinguished scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss how networking influences decision making. The individual lectures interconnect psychological testing, the modeling of neuron networks and brain dynamics to the transport of information within and between complex networks. Of particular importance was the introduction of a new principle that governs how complex networks talk to one another - the Principle of Complexity Management (PCM). PCM establishes that the transfer of information from a stimulating complex network to a responding complex network is determined by how the complexity indices of the two networks are related. The response runs the gamut from being independent of the perturbation to being completely dominated by it, depending on the complexity mismatch.

Disrupted Networks: From Physics To Climate Change (Hardcover): Bruce J. West, Nicola Scafetta Disrupted Networks: From Physics To Climate Change (Hardcover)
Bruce J. West, Nicola Scafetta
R2,533 Discovery Miles 25 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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