Chapter 1: Complexity and Criticality
Chapter 2: The Discovery of Self-Organized Criticality
Chapter 3: The Sandpile Paradigm
Chapter 4: Real Sandpiles and Landscape Formation
Chapter 5: Earthquakes, Starquakes, and Solar Flares
Chapter 6: The "Game of Life": Complexity is Criticality
Chapter 7: Is Life a Self-Organized Critical Phenomenon?
Chapter 8: Mass Extinctions and Punctuated Equilibria in a Simple Model of Evolution
Chapter 9: Theory of the Punctuated Equilibrium Model
Chapter 10: The Brain
Chapter 11: On Economies and Traffic Jams
Author: Bak, P. (Per), 1947- Title: How nature works : the science of self-organized criticality / Per Bak. Published: New York, NY, USA : Copernicus, c1996. Description: xiii, 212 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. LC Call No.: QC173.4.C74B34 1996 Dewey No.: 003/.7 20 ISBN: 0387947914 (hardcover : alk. paper) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index. Subjects: Critical phenomena (Physics) Complexity (Philosophy) Physics -- Philosophy. Control No.: 96016845
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