Steven Strogatz

Broschiertes Buch

Sync

The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

Beschreibung

Presents the story of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync. This book considers a range of applications - human sleep and circadian rhythms, menstrual synchrony, insect outbreaks, superconductors, Lasers, secret codes, heart arrhythmias and fads.

Autor

Steven Strogatz is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University and one of the world's leading researchers into chaos, complexity and synchronization. His seminal reasearch has been featured in Nature, Science, Scientific American, The New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Daily Telegraph.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780141007632
• ISBN-10: 014100763X
• Artikelnr.: 12669675