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Six Sources of Collapse : a Mathematician's Perspective on How Things Can Fall Apart in the Blink of an Eye /
Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecological collapses of recent time, that of the passenger pigeon, Hadlock goes on to survey collapse processes across the entire spectrum of the natural and man-made world. He takes us through extreme weather events, technological disasters, evolutionary pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Bibliografija "Spectrum."
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover ; copyright page ; title page ; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; What is a collapse?; Shades of Hitchcock, and other tales; What might tomorrow bring?; What this book aims to do; Predicting Unpredictable Events; Like a thief in the night?; Chance and regularity; A quick statistics primer; Normal regularity: the good, the bad, and the miraculous; Abnormal regularity: extreme value statistics; Getting things right with heavy-tailed distributions; The dangers from getting your probabilities wrong; Group Behavior: Crowds, Herds, and Video Games; Fire!
- Birds, boids, and bicyclesThe Monte Carlo world; Models with probabilities; People, properties, and political systems; Connections to other chapters; Evolution and Collapse: Game Playing in a Changing World; My New Hampshire; Strategies and games; Iterated and evolutionary game playing; Modeling the evolution of species and cultures; Implications for understanding collapse; Instability, Oscillation, and Feedback; Sharing an electric blanket and other challenges; Primer on differential equations; Stable and unstable equilibrium points and related concepts.
- The dynamics of interacting populationsStructural collapses and related processes; The science of trying to maintain control; The Chernobyl disaster; Nonlinearity: Invitation to Chaos and Catastrophe; The elephant's toenail; Local linearity; Bifurcations, tipping points, and catastrophes; Hysteresis: where there may be no simple turning back; Chaos: beginning with a butterfly; It's All About Networks; How's your networking?; Network fundamentals; Important variations in network macrostructure; Unexpected network crashes; Interactive dynamics across networks.
- Spreading processes through networksA surprising game on a network; Networks in an evolutionary context; Putting It All Together: Looking at Collapse Phenomena in ``6-D''; A quick review; The utility of multiple perspectives in understanding the risk of collapse; Where to go from here: the modern field of complexity theory; References; Index; About the Author.