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Plectics — is the name that Murray Gell Mann, the Nobel Laureate in Physics, has suggested for the research area described by Gell Mann as a broad transdisciplinary subject covering aspects of simplicity and complexity as well as the properties of complex… … Wikipedia
Gell-Mann, Murray — born Sept. 15, 1929, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. physicist. He entered Yale University at 15 and earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. From 1955 he taught at the California Institute of Technology, becoming… … Universalium
Complex systems — A visual, organizational map of complex systems science See also: Complex system Complex systems present problems in mathematical modelling. The equations from which complex system models are developed generally derive from statistical physics,… … Wikipedia
Symplectic geometry — is a branch of differential topology/geometry which studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2 form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the Hamiltonian formulation of classical… … Wikipedia
Adaptive system — An adaptive system is a system that is able to adapt its behavior according to changes in its environment or in parts of the system itself. A human being, for instance, is certainly an adaptive system; so are organizations and families. Some man… … Wikipedia
