Boundaries And Barriers by John L. Casti

These include Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science (Morrow, NY, 1989), which addresses several of the most puzzling controversies in modern science, Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future (Morrow, NY, 1991), a volume dealing with problems of scientific prediction and explanation of everyday events like the weather, stock market price movements and the outbreak of warfare, and Complexification (HarperCollins, NY, 1994), a study of complex systems and the manner in which they give rise to counterintuitive, surprising behavior. He has written fourteen popular books on science. In 1992, he also published Reality Rules (Wiley, New York), a two-volume text on mathematical modeling. In 1989 his text/reference works Alternate Realities: Mathematical Models of Nature and Man (Wiley, 1989) was awarded a prize by the 'Association of American Publishers' in a competition among all scholarly books published in mathematics and the natural sciences. He was also the former editor of the journals Applied Mathematics & Computation (Elsevier, New York) and Complexity (Wiley, New York). Author Ĭasti has written more than 120 scientific articles, seven technical monographs and textbooks on mathematical modeling. Casti (born 1943) is an author, mathematician and entrepreneur. Technical University of Vienna - (Professor of Operations Research and System Theory) International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) – (Senior Research Fellow)

Social 'mood' effects on future trends and eventsĬenter for Complex Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Senior Research Fellow) University of Southern California (Ph.D.)

Boundaries And Barriers by John L. Casti