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Contents; Preface; Part I: Linear and nonlinear processes; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Modelling; 1.3 The Origins of System Dynamics: Mechanics; 1.4 Linearity in Models; 1.5 One of The Most Basic Natural Systems: The Pendulum; 1.6 Linearity as a First, Often Insufficient Approximation; 1.7 The Nonlinearity of Natural Processes: The Case of The Pendulum; 1.8 Dynamical Systems and The Phase Space; 1.9 Extension of The Concepts and Models Used in Physics to Economics; 1.10 The Chaotic Pendulum; 1.11 Linear Models in Social Processes: The Case of Two Interacting Populations; 1.12 Nonlinear Models in Social Processes: The Model of Volterra-Lotka and Some of Its Variants in Ecology; 1.13 Nonlinear Models in Social Processes: The Volterra-Lotka Model Applied to Urban and Regional Science; Part II: From nonlinearity to chaos; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Dynamical Systems and Chaos; 2.3 Strange and Chaotic Attractors; 2.4 Chaos in Real Systems and in Mathematical Models; 2.5 Stability in Dynamical Systems; 2.6 The Problem of Measuring Chaos in Real Systems; 2.7 Logistic Growth as A Population Development Model; 2.8 A Nonlinear Discrete Model: The Logistic Map; 2.9 The Logistic Map: Some Results of Numerical Simulations and An Application; 2.10 Chaos in Systems: The Main Concepts; Part III: Complexity; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Inadequacy of Reductionism; 3.3 Some Aspects of The Classical Vision of Science; 3.4 From Determinism to Complexity: Self-Organisation, A New Understanding of System Dynamics; 3.5 What is Complexity?; 3.6 Complexity and Evolution; 3.7 Complexity in Economic Processes; 3.8 Some Thoughts on The Meaning of ’Doing Mathematics’; 3.9 Digression into The Main Interpretations of The Foundations of Mathematics; 3.10 The Need for A Mathematics of (or for) Complexity; References; Name Index; Subject Index

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