Complexity Explained - Erdi, Peter; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Complex Systems: The Intellectual Landscape -- History of Complex Systems Research -- From the Clockwork World View to Irreversibility (and Back?) -- The Dynamic World View in Action -- The Search for Laws: Deductive Versus Inductive -- Statistical Laws: From Symmetric to Asymmetric -- Simple and Complex Structures: Between Order and Randomness -- Complexity of the Brain: Structure, Function and Dynamics -- From Models to Decision Making -- How Many Cultures We Have?.
Keywords: Applied mathematics; Engineering mathematics; Statistical physics; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; Ergodic theory; Vibration; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Complex Systems; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems