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Complexity in Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology

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Editors:
  1. Danail Bonchev

    1. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

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  2. Dennis H. Rouvray

    1. University of Georgia, Athens

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  • Offers new concepts and ideas that broaden reader’s perception of modern science
  • Internationally established experts present the inspiring new science of complexity, which discovers new general laws covering wide range of science areas
  • Offers a broader view on complexity based on the expertise of the related areas of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, ecology, and physics
  • Contains methodologies for assessing the complexity of systems that can be directly applied to proteomics and genomics, and network analysis in biology, medicine, and ecology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Mathematical and Computational Chemistry (MACC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. On the Complexity of Fullerenes and Nanotubes

    • Milan Randić, Xiaofeng Guo, Dejan Plavšić, Alexandru T. Balaban
    Pages 1-48

  3. Complexity and Self-Organization in Biological Development and Evolution

    • Stuart A. Newman, Gabor Forgacs
    Pages 49-95

  4. The Circle That Never Ends: Can Complexity be Made Simple?

    • Donald C. Mikulecky
    Pages 97-153

  5. Graphs as Models of Large-Scale Biochemical Organization

    • Pau Fernández, Ricard V. Solé
    Pages 155-189

  6. Quantitative Measures of Network Complexity

    • Danail Bonchev, Gregory A. Buck
    Pages 191-235

  7. Cellular Automata Models of Complex Biochemical Systems

    • Lemont B. Kier, Tarynn M. Witten
    Pages 237-301

  8. The Complex Nature of Ecodynamics

    • Robert E. Ulanowicz
    Pages 303-329

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 331-344
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As we were at pains to point out in the companion volume to this mo- graph, entitled Complexity in Chemistry: Introduction and Fundamentals, complexity is to be encountered just about everywhere. All that is needed forustoseeitisasuitablytrainedeyeanditthenappearsalmostmagically in all manner of guises. Because of its ubiquity, complexity has been and currentlystillisbeingde?nedinanumberofdifferentways. Someofthese de?nitions have led us to major and powerful new insights. Thus, even in the present monograph, the important distinction is drawn between the - terpretations of the concepts of complexity and complication and this is shown to have a signi?cant bearing on how systems are modeled. Having said this, however, we should not fail to mention that the broad consensus that now gained acceptance is that all of the de?nitions of complexity are in the last analysis to be understood in essentially intuitive terms. Such de?nitions will therefore always have a certain degree of fuzziness as- ciated with them. But this latter desideratum should in no way be viewed as diminishing the great usefulness of the concept in any of the many scienti?c disciplines to which it can be applied. In the chapters that are included in this monograph the fact that differing concepts of complexity can be utilized in a variety of disciplines is made explicit. The speci?c d- ciplines that we embrace herein are chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and ecology. Chapter 1, “On the Complexity of Fullerenes and Nanotubes,” is wr- ten by an international team of scientists led by Milan Randic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

    Danail Bonchev

  • University of Georgia, Athens

    Dennis H. Rouvray

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