Grammar Of Complexity From Mathematics To A Sustainable World

Author : Dimitri Volchenkov
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789813232495
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar of Complexity written by Dimitri Volchenkov and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perplexity of complexity -- Preliminaries -- Theory of extreme events -- Statistical basis of inequality and discounting the future and inequality -- Elements of graph theory -- Exploring graph structures by random walks -- We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us -- Complexity of musical harmony

Author : Volchenkov Dimitri
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981323251X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar Of Complexity: From Mathematics To A Sustainable World written by Volchenkov Dimitri and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an introduction, for both graduate students and newcomers to the field of the modern theory of mesoscopic complex systems, time series, hypergraphs and graphs, scaled random walks, and modern information theory. As these are applied for the exploration and characterization of complex systems. Our self-consistent review provides the necessary basis for consistency. We discuss a number of applications such diverse as urban structures and musical compositions. Contents: Perplexity of ComplexityPreliminaries: Permutations, Partitions, Probabilities and InformationTheory of Extreme EventsStatistical Basis of Inequality and Discounting the Future and InequalityElements of Graph Theory. Adjacency, Walks, and EntropiesExploring Graph Structures by Random WalksWe Shape Our Buildings: Thereafter They Shape UsComplexity of Musical Harmony Readership: Graduate student in information theory, complex systems and mathematical modeling. Keywords: Complex Systems and Processes;Extreme Events;Discounting the Future and Inequality;Urban Environments;Complexity of Musical HarmonyReview: Key Features: The book provides the unique treatment of the modern theory of mesoscopic complex systems, time series, hypergraphs and graphs, scaled random walks, and modern information theory as applied for exploration and characterization of complex systemsThe book shows how the concepts of complexity theory is applicable to the problem fo survival, urban studies, income inequality, musical harmonyThe book might be used as recommended reading for a course

Author : Dimitri Volchenkov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030794121
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Methods in Modern Complexity Science written by Dimitri Volchenkov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems. It provides recent theoretic developments and new techniques based on a nonlinear dynamical systems approach that can be used to model and understand complex behavior in nonlinear dynamical systems. It covers information theory, relativistic chaotic dynamics, data analysis, relativistic chaotic dynamics, solvability issues in integro-differential equations, and inverse problems for parabolic differential equations, synchronization and chaotic transient. Presents new concepts for understanding and modeling complex systems

Author : Luca D'Acci
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030123812
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mathematics of Urban Morphology written by Luca D'Acci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban morphology, the study of urban forms and structures, offering a much-needed mathematical perspective. Experts on a variety of mathematical modeling techniques provide new insights into specific aspects of the field, such as street networks, sustainability, and urban growth. The chapters collected here make a clear case for the importance of tools and methods to understand, model, and simulate the formation and evolution of cities. The chapters cover a wide variety of topics in urban morphology, and are conveniently organized by their mathematical principles. The first part covers fractals and focuses on how self-similar structures sort themselves out through competition. This is followed by a section on cellular automata, and includes chapters exploring how they generate fractal forms. Networks are the focus of the third part, which includes street networks and other forms as well. Chapters that examine complexity and its relation to urban structures are in part four.The fifth part introduces a variety of other quantitative models that can be used to study urban morphology. In the book’s final section, a series of multidisciplinary commentaries offers readers new ways of looking at the relationship between mathematics and urban forms. Being the first book on this topic, Mathematics of Urban Morphology will be an invaluable resource for applied mathematicians and anyone studying urban morphology. Additionally, anyone who is interested in cities from the angle of economics, sociology, architecture, or geography will also find it useful. "This book provides a useful perspective on the state of the art with respect to urban morphology in general and mathematics as tools and frames to disentangle the ideas that pervade arguments about form and function in particular. There is much to absorb in the pages that follow and there are many pointers to ways in which these ideas can be linked to related theories of cities, urban design and urban policy analysis as well as new movements such as the role of computation in cities and the idea of the smart city. Much food for thought. Read on, digest, enjoy." From the foreword by Michael Batty

Author : Cara Courage
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104001769X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma Informed Placemaking written by Cara Courage and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities. The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and of place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first- and third-person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented throughout. These are organised into four sections that lead the reader to an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field – how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place – and concludes with calls to action for the trauma-informed placemaking approach to be adopted. This book will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested in people and places, from artists and architects, policy makers and planners, community development workers and organisations, placemakers, to local and national governments. It will appeal to the disciplines of human geography, sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology and to placemakers, planners and policymakers and those working in community development.

Author : Carla M.A. Pinto
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031066324
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity written by Carla M.A. Pinto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects a range of contributions on nonlinear dynamics and complexity, providing a systematic summary of recent developments, applications, and overall advances in nonlinearity, chaos, and complexity. It presents both theories and techniques in nonlinear systems and complexity and serves as a basis for more research on synchronization and complexity in nonlinear science as well as a mechanism to fast-scatter the new knowledge to scientists, engineers, and students in the corresponding fields. Written by world-renown experts from across the globe, the collection is ideal for researchers, practicing engineers, and students concerned with machinery and controls, manufacturing, and controls.

Author : Dimitri Volchenkov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303097328X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity written by Dimitri Volchenkov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020. It provides an exchange recent developments, discoveries, and progresses in Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity. The collection presents fundamental and frontier theories and techniques for modern science and technology, stimulates more research interest for exploration of nonlinear science and complexity; and passes along new knowledge and insight to the next generation of engineers and technologists in a range of fields.

Author : Juergen Maasz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460915434
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real-World Problems for Secondary School Mathematics Students written by Juergen Maasz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book full of ideas for introducing real world problems into mathematics classrooms and assisting teachers and students to benefit from the experience. Taken as a whole these contributions provide a rich resource for mathematics teachers and their students that is readily available in a single volume. Nowadays there is a universal emphasis on teaching for understanding, motivating students to learn mathematics and using real world problems to improve the mathematics experience of school students. However, using real world problems in mathematics classrooms places extra demands on teachers in terms of extra-mathematical knowledge e.g. knowledge of the area of applications, and pedagogical knowledge. Care must also be taken to avoid overly complex situations and applications. Papers in this collection offer a practical perspective on these issues, and more. While many papers offer specific well worked out lesson type ideas, others concentrate on the teacher knowledge needed to introduce real world applications of mathematics into the classroom. We are confident that mathematics teachers who read the book will find a myriad of ways to introduce the material into their classrooms whether in ways suggested by the contributing authors or in their own ways, perhaps through mini-projects or extended projects or practical sessions or enquiry based learning. We are happy if they do! This book is written for mathematics classroom teachers and their students, mathematics teacher educators, and mathematics teachers in training at pre-service and in-service phases of their careers.

Author : John Roe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030095482
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Sustainability written by John Roe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the 21st century classroom, this textbook poses, refines, and analyzes questions of sustainability in a quantitative environment. Building mathematical knowledge in the context of issues relevant to every global citizen today, this text takes an approach that empowers students of all disciplines to understand and reason with quantitative information. Whatever conclusions may be reached on a given topic, this book will prepare the reader to think critically about their own and other people’s arguments and to support them with careful, mathematical reasoning. Topics are grouped in themes of measurement, flow, connectivity, change, risk, and decision-making. Mathematical thinking is at the fore throughout, as students learn to model sustainability on local, regional, and global scales. Exercises emphasize concepts, while projects build and challenge communication skills. With no prerequisites beyond high school algebra, instructors will find this book a rich resource for engaging all majors in the mathematics classroom. From the Foreword No longer will you be just a spectator when people give you quantitative information—you will become an active participant who can engage and contribute new insights to any discussion.[...] There are many math books that will feed you knowledge, but it is rare to see a book like this one that will help you cultivate wisdom.[...] As the authors illustrate, mathematics that pays attention to human considerations can help you look at the world with a new lens, help you frame important questions, and help you make wise decisions. Francis Edward Su, Harvey Mudd College

Author : Angela Espinosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786342041
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Complexity Approach to Sustainability written by Angela Espinosa and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great importance in modern-day socio-economic study. Despite this, the impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing these issues has not yet filtered down into effective practice. This book argues that there is a need for urgency in the application of analytical tools which embody the principles of complexity management in sustainability research, in particular in the context of the global climate change. The approach presented is based on the concept of clusters of whole systems coming together through collaboration, in order to create larger wholes capable of dealing with the issues facing our socio-economic environmental systems. In this updated second edition, the authors further clarify the viability and sustainability (V&S) approach, and the criteria and framework needed for sustainable governance. It includes a more detailed perspective on the implications of the V&S approach to businesses and networks towards changes in structure, strategy and processes, inspired by specific case studies. Key additions include a criteria for designing more viable and sustainable self-governed organizations, the methodologies and tools to design and implement self-transformations towards sustainability, and how these tools support sustainability management individually and globally, for businesses and society."--Publisher's website.