Crashes, crises, and calamities

Crashes, crises, and calamities

By
Len Fisher
Len Fisher

Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, the author offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories.

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