Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer

by Claudius Gros

Complex system theory is rapidly developing and gaining importance, providing tools and concepts central to our modern understanding of emergent phenomena. This primer offers an introduction to this area together with detailed coverage of the mathematics involved. All calculations are presented step by step and are straightforward to follow. This new third edition comes with new material, figures and exercises. Network theory, dynamical systems and information theory, the core of modern complex system sciences, are developed in the first three chapters, covering basic concepts and phenomena like small-world networks, bifurcation theory and information entropy. Further chapters use a modular approach to address the most important concepts in complex system sciences, with the emergence and self-organization playing a central role. Prominent examples are self-organized criticality in adaptive systems, life at the edge of chaos, hypercycles and coevolutionary avalanches, synchronization ph

345 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2007

Reviews

[Øivind Schøyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book and it is a very fascinating read. I did not do exercises, it would be fun to follow Prof. Gros course on the topic and really dive into this material . See: https://itp.uni-frankfurt.de/~gros/Vo... I hope to return to this book in the future to gain a more applied understanding than my current one.

[Amir · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fantastic! One of the best books I have read.
I suggest you to read it, if you wan’t to know about complexity, chaos, criticality and self organized criticality, graph theory and most of the things which may be interesting to you.

[DJ]

potentially good intro to complex systems