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    Fractional Calculus for Skeptics I

    Bruce J. West, YangQuan Chen

    This book is the first of its kind on fractional calculus (FC), dedicated to advocating for FC in STEM education and research.

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    On the Fractal Language of Medicine

    Bruce J. West, W. Alan C. Mutch

    This book bridges a very clear gap between the knowledge gained over the last 20 years in the physical and life sciences about network theory, organ synchronicity and communication, the…

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    Simplifying Complexity: Life is Uncertain, Unfair and Unequal

    Bruce J West

    In life, we often face unavoidable complexities in terms of our ability to understand or influence outcomes. Some questions which arise due to these complexities are: Why can't the future…

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    Fractional Calculus and the Future of Science

    Newton foresaw the limitations of geometry’s description of planetary behavior and developed fluxions (differentials) as the new language for celestial mechanics and as the way to implement his laws of…

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    An Essay on the Importance of Being Nonlinear

    Bruce J. West

    One of my favorite quotes is from a letter of Charles Darwin (1887): I have long discovered that geologists never read each other’s works, and that the only object in…

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    Nature’s Patterns and the Fractional Calculus

    Bruce J. West

    The book proposes complexity as source of allometry, which provides a new kind of force generated by the system’s information gradient. Based on first principles, the scaling behavior of the…

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    Fractional Calculus View of Complexity: Tomorrow’s Science

    Bruce J. West

    This book explains the quantitative reasoning required by the fractional calculus applied to complex physical, social, and biological phenomena. Fractional calculus is inextricably linked to complexity and provides a way…

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    Fractional Calculus View of Complexity: Tomorrow’s Science

    Bruce J. West

    This book explains the quantitative reasoning required by the fractional calculus applied to complex physical, social, and biological phenomena. Fractional calculus is inextricably linked to complexity and provides a way…

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    Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine (2nd Edition)

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa)

    Provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine. This book is concerned with the…

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    Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa)

    Provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine. This book is concerned with the…

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    Fractal Physiology And Chaos In Medicine

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa)

    Provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine. This book is concerned with the…

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    Physiology, Promiscuity And Prophecy At The Millennium: A Tale Of Tails

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa)

    This text concerns the development of a theory of complex phenomena, using such concepts as fractals, chaos and fractional derivatives; but, most importantly, the idea of an allometric control process…

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    Where Medicine Went Wrong: Rediscovering The Path To Complexity

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa)

    Through insights into the science of complexity, traditional physiology is replaced with fractal physiology, in which variability is more indicative of health than is an average. This work explores how…

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    Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application Of Network Science

    Captures the proceedings of a workshop that brought together a group of distinguished scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss how networking influences decision making.

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    Biodynamics: Why the Wirewalker Doesn’t Fall

    Bruce J. West,Lori A. Griffin

    Aims to integrate physical laws and principles with concepts of fractals, chaos, and randomness. This book describes both the large scale, smooth aspects of locomotion and the more minute, randomized…

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    Empirical Paradox, Complexity Thinking and Generating New Kinds of Knowledge

    Paolo Grigolini,Korosh Mahmoodi,Bruce J. West

    Is another world war inevitable? The answer is a resounding yes if we continue to think in terms of either/or outcomes. Adversaries think in such terms, you either get what…

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    Dialogues Concerning Science, Technology, and Intellect in American Society’s and Military’s Future

    Bruce J. West,Chris Arney,Kira Hutchinson

    This book presents distinctive perspectives and voices concerning the nature, utility, and limitations of science and technology in national security, as well as outlining the nature of science and technology’s…

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    Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders

    Bruce J. West,Malgorzata Turalska,Paolo Grigolini

    How phase transitions in the network dynamics influence such activity as decision making is a fascinating story and provides a context for introducing many of the mathematical ideas necessary for…

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    Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders

    Bruce J. West,Malgorzata Turalska,Paolo Grigolini

    How phase transitions in the network dynamics influence such activity as decision making is a fascinating story and provides a context for introducing many of the mathematical ideas necessary for…

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    Disrupted Networks: From Physics To Climate Change

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa),Nicola Scafetta (Duke Univ, Usa)

    Offers a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of…

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    Crucial Events: Why Are Catastrophes Never Expected?

    Bruce J West (Army Research Office, Usa),Paolo Grigolini (Univ Of North Texas, Usa)

    A nonsimple (complex) system indicates a mix of crucial and non-crucial events, with very different statistical properties. It is the crucial events that determine the efficiency of information exchange between…

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    Complex Webs: Anticipating the Improbable

    Bruce J. West,Paolo Grigolini (University of North Texas)

    Presenting the common principles, algorithms, and tools governing network behaviour, dynamics, and complexity, this book synthesises modern mathematical developments with the broad range of network applications of interest to the…

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    Patterns, Information And Chaos In Neuronal Systems

    Part of a series intended to give clear expositions of the applications of the new techniques developed to understand nonlinear phenomena in the life sciences. Topics covered include dynamic concepts…

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