Sync

The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. But only in the past decade have scientists from disparate disciplines come to the stunning realization that the study of synchrony could revolutionize our understanding of everything from the origin of life to certain types of human behavior. At once elegant and riveting, "Sync" tells the story of the dawn of a new science. As one of its pioneers, Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. Along with vivid explanations of cuttin-edge theory, Strogatz provides an intimate and highly personal narrative filled with often humorous anecdotes about some of the visionary thinkers of our time. A tour de force of science and prose, "Sync" reveals the hidden but beautiful order that governs the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of ourselves.

Informationen zum Autor Steven Strogatz received his doctorate from Harvard University and served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT before becoming a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell Universitty in 1994. Widely recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in chaos and complexity theory, he has received numerous awards throughout his career, including MIT's highest teaching prize and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the White House. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife, Carol, and their two daughters, Leah and Joanna. Klappentext The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far reaching drives in all of nature, extending from people to plants, from animals to atoms. "Sync" is the story of this dazzling kind of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync, written by the mathematician who created the science.

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Steven Strogatz received his doctorate from Harvard University and served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT before becoming a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell Universitty in 1994. Widely recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in chaos and complexity theory, he has received numerous awards throughout his career, including MIT's highest teaching prize and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the White House. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife, Carol, and their two daughters, Leah and Joanna.

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The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far reaching drives in all of nature, extending from people to plants, from animals to atoms. "Sync" is the story of this dazzling kind of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync, written by the mathematician who created the science.