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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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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Full title: Disrupted Networks: From Physics To Climate Change
• Author: Bruce J. West, Nicola Scafetta
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9789814304306
• ISBN: 9814304301
• ID: 05070105
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 614 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 157 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. March 2010

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