Year: 1997
Type: book-review
Abstract: 1: Complexity and criticality. 2: The discovery of self-organized criticality. 3: The sandpile paradigm. 4: Real sandpiles and landscape formation. 5: Earthquakes, starquakes, and solar flares. 6: The Game of Life: complexity is critical. 7: Is life a self-organized critical phenomenon. 8: Mass extinctions and punctuated equilibria in a simple model of evolution. 9: Theory of the punctuated equilibrium model. 10: The brain. 11: On economies and traffic jams. Bibliography. Index
Source: American Journal of Physics
DOI: 10.1119/1.18610
Authors: Per Bak, Michael Weissman
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2991668532