Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook by Charbonneau, Paul

Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook

This book provides a short, hands-on introduction to the science of complexity using simple computational models of...
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Author: Paul Charbonneau
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Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook by Charbonneau, Paul

Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook

CHF 109.19

Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook

CHF 109.19
Author: Paul Charbonneau
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This book provides a short, hands-on introduction to the science of complexity using simple computational models of natural complex systems--with models and exercises drawn from physics, chemistry, geology, and biology. By working through the models and engaging in additional computational explorations suggested at the end of each chapter, readers very quickly develop an understanding of how complex structures and behaviors can emerge in natural phenomena as diverse as avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, chemical reactions, animal flocks, and epidemic diseases.

Natural Complexity provides the necessary topical background, complete source codes in Python, and detailed explanations for all computational models. Ideal for undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and researchers in the physical and natural sciences, this unique handbook requires no advanced mathematical knowledge or programming skills and is suitable for self-learners with a working knowledge of precalculus and high-school physics.

Self-contained and accessible, Natural Complexity enables readers to identify and quantify common underlying structural and dynamical patterns shared by the various systems and phenomena it examines, so that they can form their own answers to the questions of what natural complexity is and how it arises.

Author: Paul Charbonneau
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780691170350


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2017

About the Author
Paul Charbonneau is professor of physics at the University of Montreal.

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