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By Ball , Philip

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Year
2015
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11966207 bytes)
Series
Nature's Pattern - A Tapestry in Three Parts
Pages
\319
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Overview: Philip Ball (born 1962) is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal Nature for over 10 years. He now writes a regular column in Chemistry World. Ball's most-popular book is the 2004 Critical Mass: How One Things Leads to Another, winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. It examines a wide range of topics including the business cycle, random walks, phase transitions, bifurcation theory, traffic flow, Zipf's law, Small world phenomenon, catastrophe theory, the Prisoner's dilemma. The overall theme is one of applying modern mathematical models to social and economic phenomena.

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