Yair Neuman: How Small Social Systems Work

Cover: 9783030822408 | How Small Social Systems Work | Yair Neuman | Taschenbuch | xv | 2022

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Beschreibung

Part I.- Introduction: On unhappy families, unsuccessful football teams, and grandmothers' intuition.- On the foxes of Leicester, underdogs, and Lady Fortuna.- "There is no motherfucker who can stop (the flow of) time".- Part II.- The enemy of art is the enemy of soccer: On constraints, Thai boxing, and love triangles.- How messy should you be to win a match? On the yin and yang of entropy.- Unique interactions: On chemistry in love and soccer.- How to identify the weakest link in the chain: From Sir Shackleton to Anna Karenina and the German national football team.- Discussion.

Über den Autor

Professor Yair Neuman (b. 1968) is the author of numerous papers and eight academic books published by leading publishers. He has been a visiting professor at various universities, such as Oxford, Toronto and MIT, and holds a full professorship at the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His most recent book, dealing with mathematics and literature, appeared in a new book series published in collaboration with the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.

Zusammenfassung

Presents a general "logic" underlying small social systems of quite different kinds

Written with a scientific albeit friendly, conceptual, and entertaining orientation

Provides numerous examples from various fields

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Physik
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Physik , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xv 178 S. 12 s/w Illustr. 1 farbige Illustr. 178 p. 13 illus. 1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030822408
ISBN-10:	3030822400
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Neuman, Yair
Hersteller:	Springer Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Yair Neuman
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,306 kg