At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
ISBN-10
0195111303
ISBN-13
9780195111309
Series
At Home in the Universe
Category
Science
Pages
321
Language
English
Published
1996-11-21
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Stuart Kauffman

Description

The author examines the concept of self-organization, or as he calls it "order for free," discussing how it occurs more frequently in nature than originally believed

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