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With the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of on

Dynamics. --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Fractals. --- Nonlinear theories. --- Mathematics in art. --- Mathematics in literature. --- Digital art.

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Chaotic behavior in systems --- Computational complexity --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Computational complexity. --- Complexity, Computational --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory

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Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world’s leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai – have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology’s distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Ethnology --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Ethnology - Philosophy --- Ethnology - Methodology --- Chaotic behavior in systems

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Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology, physiology, and genetics; moreover, art, engineering, and mathematics rely on modular design principles. This collection broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, evolutionary computation, developmental and evolutionary biology, linguistics, mathematics, morphology, paleontology, physics, theoretical chemistry, philosophy, and the arts.The contributors debate and compare the uses of modularity, discussing the different disciplinary contexts of "modular thinking" in general (including hierarchical organization, near-decomposability, quasi-independence, and recursion) or of more specialized concepts (including character complex, gene family, encapsulation, and mosaic evolution); what modules are, why and how they develop and evolve, and the implication for the research agenda in the disciplines involved; and how to bring about useful cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer on the topic. The book includes a foreword by the late Herbert A. Simon addressing the role of near-decomposability in understanding complex systems.

Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection. --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Modularity (Psychology) --- Biocomplexity. --- Natural selection --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Biocomplexity --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Evolution --- Biological complexity --- Complexity, Biological --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Faculty psychology --- Modules (Psychology) --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biodiversity --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Heredity --- Human information processing --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General