Author: Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: reason, religion, science, view, sacred, new, reinventing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0465003001
ISBN-13: 9780465003006

A compelling and sweeping argument that complexity theory can build a bridge between science and religion. Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere? As the eminent complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman explains in this ambitious and groundbreaking new book, people who do not believe in God have largely lost their sense of the sacred and the deep human legitimacy of our inherited spi

Author: Stuart Kauffman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: organization, complexity, laws, search, universe, home
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-11-21
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195111303
ISBN-13: 9780195111309

A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin’s theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations. And more than anyone else, this revolution is the work of one man, Stuart Kauffman, a MacArthur Fellow and visionary pioneer of the new science of complexity. Now, in At Home in the Universe, Kauffman brilliantly weaves together the excitement of intellectual discovery and a fertile mix of i

Author: Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: reason, religion, science, view, sacred, new, reinventing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0465018882
ISBN-13: 9780465018888

Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere?In this bold and fresh look at science and religion, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman argues that the qualities of divinity that we revere—creativity, meaning, purposeful action—are properties of the universe that can be investigated methodically. He offers stunning evidence for this idea in an abundance of fields, from cell b

Author: Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: investigations
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2002-09-19
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0195121058
ISBN-13: 9780195121056

In the tradition of Schrodinger’s classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman’s At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately written" and nature named "courageous," introduced pivotal ideas about order and evolution in complex life systems. In investigations, Kauffman builds on these theories and finds that classical science does not

Author: Stuart Kauffman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: organization, complexity, laws, search, universe, home
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1995-09-07
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195095995
ISBN-13: 9780195095999

An intriguing overview of the new science of complexity, examining the broad spectra of spontaneous orders that exist in nature and the interconnections among complexity and the general laws that govern ecosystems, economic systems, and cultural systems, among others. UP.

Author: Louis H. Kauffman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: knots
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 1987-10-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0691084351
ISBN-13: 9780691084350

Author: Louis H. Kauffman
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: physics, knots
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2001-12-15
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 9810241127
ISBN-13: 9789810241124

This volume provides an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally includes a range of interrelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This stance has the advantage of providing direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as physical ideas. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 is a syste