Catastrophes Chaos And Convolutions

Author : James P. Hogan
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618245058
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophes, Chaos and Convolutions written by James P. Hogan and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour though the many worlds of a New York Times best-selling master of authentic science fact and riveting science fiction. James P. Hogan stands among the foremost writers of science fiction today, and is renowned for his ability to combine accurate science from the cutting edge of present-day research with living, breathing characters in fast-paced, suspenseful stories. Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions gives Hogan's thousands of avid readers both a solid-chunk of high-quality science fiction and a look behind the scenes, as Hogan describes how his work came to be written, with biographical details. Add a dash of science fact articles, often on controversial topics (suppose, for example, that Velikovsky was right and the orthodox scientists wrong), and you have a volume that is an essential purchase for Hogan fans everywhere. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : James P. Hogan
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 1416509216
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophes, Chaos and Convolutions written by James P. Hogan and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's science fiction stories, science fact articles, and discussions of how they came to be written.

Author : Domencio Castrigiano
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429970358
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by Domencio Castrigiano and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe Theory was introduced in the 1960s by the renowned Fields Medal mathematician René Thom as a part of the general theory of local singularities. Since then it has found applications across many areas, including biology, economics, and chemical kinetics. By investigating the phenomena of bifurcation and chaos, Catastrophe Theory proved to

Author : James P. Hogan
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618247689
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration written by James P. Hogan and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the past eventually died in the conflagration toward which it had been doggedly heading. A more fragmented and diversified order has emerged from the ruins and . technology has reappeared to a greater or lesser degree in some places and not at all in others. Unique among them is the nation-state of Sofi, with an exceptional population that has rediscovered advanced science. However, as the old patterns that led to ruin before begin to reassert themselves across the rest of the world, a scientific-political movement within Sofi embarks on a years-long project to build a generation starship that will enable them to create their own world elsewhere. The circumstances and thinking of future generations growing up in the totally unknown situation of a space environment cannot be known. Accordingly, the mission will include different groups of idealists, reformers, misfits, and dissidents who are not satisfied with the world-in-miniature that constitutes the original mother ship, to go out and build whatever they want. Hence, what arrives at the distant star generations hence will be a flotilla of variously run city states, frontier towns, religious monasteries, pleasure resorts, urban crushes, rural spreads, academic retreats, and who-knows what else. The trouble began, of course, when all the old patterns that they thought they were getting away from started reappearing . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : James P. Hogan
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618246038
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Worlds written by James P. Hogan and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard SF master and New York Times best-seller James P. Hogan's Giant's Star and Entoverse together for the first time in one volume! Realities Re-made! Earth is caught between a powerful alien empire and an off-shoot group of humans who hate Earth more than any alien ever could. Plus: two equal and opposite universes collide! Now demons stalk a world-controlling computer, while an even greater danger descends on Universe 2: cause is leading directly to effect. The horror! This title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Readers who like their science hard will find this one a diamond." ¾Publishers Weekly on New York Times best-seller James P. Hogan's Mission to Minerva.

Author : Stephen J. Guastello
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134787855
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos, Catastrophe, and Human Affairs written by Stephen J. Guastello and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether talking about steering a wheelbarrow over rugged terrain or plotting the course of international relations, human performance systems involve change. Sometimes changes are subtle or evolutionary, sometimes they are catastrophic or revolutionary, and sometimes the changes are from periods of relative calm to periods of vibrant oscillations to periods of chaos. As a general rule, more complex systems are likely to produce more complex forms of change. Although social scientists have long acknowledged that change occurs and have considered ways to effect desirable change, the dynamical processes of change have been poorly understood in the past. This volume combines recent advances in mathematics and experimental design with the best available social science theories to produce a new, integrated, and compact theory of work, organizations, and social evolution. The domains of application extend from human decision-making processes to personnel selection and work motivation, work performance under conditions of stress, accident and health risk analysis, the development of social institutions and economic systems, creativity and innovation, organizational development and group dynamics, and political revolutions and war. Relative to other literature on nonlinear dynamical systems theory (NDS), this book is unique in that it integrates new developments in NDS with substantive psychological theory. It builds on many recent developments in organizational theory to show that nonlinear dynamics were often implicit in those works all along. The result is an entirely new way of viewing social events, understanding change processes, and asking questions about social systems. This book also contains much new empirical work and explains the newly developed methods for testing these new hypotheses.

Author : Courtney Brown
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506339948
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaos and Catastrophe Theories written by Courtney Brown and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995-06-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos and catastrophe theories have become one of the major frontiers in the social sciences. Brown helps to clarify this complex new technique for modeling by approaching it with the following questions: What is Chaos? How can it be measured? How are the models estimated? What is catastrophe? How is it modeled? Beginning with an explanation of the differences between deterministic and probabilistic models, Brown introduces the reader to chaotic dynamics. Other topics covered are finding settings in which chaos can be measured, estimating chaos using nonlinear least squares, and specifying catastrophe models. Finally, the author estimates a nonlinear system of equations that models catastrophe using real survey data. Researchers wanting to understand and make use of this exciting new direction in social measurement and modeling will find this book an excellent and cogent introduction.

Author : Tim Poston
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143783
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications written by Tim Poston and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First integrated treatment of main ideas behind René Thom's theory of catastrophes stresses detailed applications in the physical sciences. Mathematics of theory explained with a minimum of technicalities. Over 200 illustrations clarify text designed for researchers and postgraduate students in engineering, mathematics, physics and biology. 1978 edition. Bibliography.

Author : V. I. Arnol'd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364296799X
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by V. I. Arnol'd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singularity theory is growing very fast and many new results have been discovered since the Russian edition appeared: for instance the relation of the icosahedron to the problem of by passing a generic obstacle. The reader can find more details about this in the articles "Singularities of ray systems" and "Singularities in the calculus of variations" listed in the bi bliography of the present edition. Moscow, September 1983 v. I. Arnold Preface to the Russian Edition "Experts discuss forecasting disasters" said a New York Times report on catastrophe theory in November 1977. The London Times declared Catastrophe Theory to be the "main intellectual movement of the century" while an article on catastrophe theory in Science was headed "The emperor has no clothes". This booklet explains what catastrophe theory is about and why it arouses such controversy. It also contains non-con troversial results from the mathematical theories of singulari ties and bifurcation. The author has tried to explain the essence of the fundamen tal results and applications to readers having minimal mathe matical background but the reader is assumed to have an in quiring mind. Moscow 1981 v. I. Arnold Contents Chapter 1. Singularities, Bifurcations, and Catastrophe Theories ............... 1 Chapter 2. Whitney's Singularity Theory ... 3 Chapter 3. Applications of Whitney's Theory 7 Chapter 4. A Catastrophe Machine ...... 10 Chapter 5. Bifurcations of Equilibrium States 14 Chapter 6. Loss of Stability of Equilibrium and the Generation of Auto-Oscillations . . . . . . 20 .

Author : Peter Timothy Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521297820
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Catastrophe Theory written by Peter Timothy Saunders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-06-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to catastrophe theory, a mathematical theory which deals with those changes which occur abruptly rather than smoothly. Includes many applications to illustrate the different ways in which catastrophe can be used in life, physical and social sciences.