Signs Of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology
- ISBN-10
- 0465019285
- ISBN-13
- 9780465019281
- Series
- Signs of Life
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-01-04
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Authors
- Brian Goodwin, Ricard Sole
Description
Signs of Life applies the mathematics of order and disorder, of entropy, chance, and randomness, of chaos and nonlinear dynamics to the various mysteries of the living world at all levels. This book is an entirely new approach to understanding living systems and will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.
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