On the importance of a certain slowness: Stability, memory and hysteresis in complex systems

Worldviews, Science and us: Philosophy and Complexity

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 53-64

  Cilliers, Paul ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 84967642687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812707420_0004     Document Type: Chapter

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