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Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecological collapses of recent time, that of the passenger pigeon, Hadlock goes on to survey collapse processes across the entire spectrum of the natural and man-made world. He takes us through extreme weather events, technological disasters, evolutionary processes, crashing markets and companies, the chaotic nature of Earth's orbit, revolutionary political change, the spread and elimination of disease, and many other fascinating cases. His key thesis is that one or more of six fundamental dynamics consistently show up across this wide range.

These "six sources of collapse" can all be best described and investigated using fundamental mathematical concepts. They include low probability events, group dynamics, evolutionary games, instability, nonlinearity, and network effects, all of which are explained in readily understandable terms. Almost the entirety of the book can be understood by readers with a minimal mathematical background, but even professional mathematicians are likely to get rich insights from the range of examples. The author tells his story with a warmly personal tone and weaves in many of his own experiences, whether from his consulting career of racing around the world trying to head off industrial disasters to his story of watching collapse after collapse in the evolution of an ecosystem on his New Hampshire farm.

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2012, The Mathematical Association of America

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Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Predicting Unpredictable Events
Chapter 3. Group Behavior: Crowds, Herds, and Video Games
Chapter 4. Evolution and Collapse: Game Playing in a Changing World
Chapter 5. Instability, Oscillation, and Feedback
Chapter 6. Nonlinearity: Invitation to Chaos and Catastrophe
Chapter 7. It’s All About Networks
Chapter 8. Putting It All Together: Looking at Collapse Phenomena in '6-D"
References.
Index.
About the Author.

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GB5014 .H325 2012, GB5014 .H33 2012

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OL25443199M
ISBN 10
0883855798
ISBN 13
9781614445142, 9780883855799
LCCN
2012950085
OCLC/WorldCat
827017860

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