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9780192897893

Sailing the Ocean of Complexity Lessons from the Physics-Biology Frontier

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-09-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Sauro Succi, Senior Research Executive and Principal Investigator, La Sapienza, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome

Sauro Succi graduated in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna and holds a PhD in Physics from the Swiss Polytechnique Institute in Lausanne. He has been working at several Italian and European institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, EPFL, IBM Europe, The
Italian National Research Council and lately the Italian Institute of Technology. He also held numerous teaching and research appointments in Europe and USA, particularly at Harvard University.

Table of Contents


Preface
Part 1: COMPLEXITY
1. Introducing Complexity
2. The Guiding Barriers
3. Competition and Cooperation
4. Nonlinearity, The Mother of Complexity
5. The Dark Side of Nonlinearity
6. The Bright Side of Nonlinearity
7. Networks, The Fabric of Complexity
Part 2: THE SCIENCE OF CHANGE
8. Good Old Thermodynamics
9. The Man Who Trusted Atoms
10. Biological Escapes
11. Cosmological Escapes
12. Free Energy
Part 3: THE PHYSICS-BIOLOGY INTERFACE
13. Survival in Molecular Hyperland, the Ozland Valleys
14. Free Energy Funnels
15. Soft Matter, The Stu that Dreams Are Made Of
16. Water, the Wonderuid
Part 4: COMPLEXITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
17. Time and the Complexity of the Human Condition
18. Harness the Hybris: Hallelujah!
19. Appendices
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
References

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