Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World
- ISBN-10
- 0449910814
- ISBN-13
- 9780449910818
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 462
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Authors
- Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney
Description
A groundbreaking book explores the dynamic, emerging concept of complexity and its relationship to mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry, and provides an arresting account of how far science has come and what to expect in the rapidly approaching future. Reprint.
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