Complexity: Introduction and Fundamentals [Hardcover]

D.G. Bonchev (Editor), D.H. Rouvray (Editor)

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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (Jan 23 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041528791X
ISBN-13: 978-0415287913
Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 485 g

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This volume covers the rapidly developing field of complexity studies with the underlying theme that complexity is to be found everywhere. The volume discusses many chemical applications and offers a comprehensive coverage of complexity and the ways in which it may be measured, complexity indices, complexity measures based on Shannon's information theory, and thermodynamic complexity. Complexity: Introduction and Fundamentals provides a valuable source of reference for graduates and researchers for mathematical chemistry.

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Because the terms complex and complexity are so widely used in everyday language, when an object is described as being complex or a system is said to exhibit complexity, most of us have an intuitive feeling that we understand what is meant. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars From a chemical viewpoint, Aug 4 2004

By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Complexity: Introduction and Fundamentals (Hardcover)

Complexity is a topic that has been discussed in chemistry for several decades, as witness Ilya Prigogine's seminal works on this issue. For chemists wanting a good current expository text, that does not assume any prior knowledge of it, try this work by Rouvray.

There is much overlap between studying complexity and information theory. Indeed, this book has a chapter devoted to Shannon's theories. But, as befits a book for chemists, that chapter is toward the end. Instead, Rouvray talks about complexity in the context of thermodynamics. [You do remember most of your thermo books, don't you?] Then we are shown how complexity can be quantified in so-called complexity indices, for various molecules.

Then there is a discussion of how molecular complexity might be correlated to the difficulty of synthesis of such molecules. Hopefully, your chemical intuition can come into play, making complexity far more understandable.

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