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The Last Scientific Revolution

Kirilyuk, Andrei (2007) The Last Scientific Revolution. [Preprint]

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Critically growing problems of fundamental science organisation and content are analysed with examples from physics and emerging interdisciplinary fields. Their origin is specified and new science structure (organisation and content) is proposed as a unified solution.

Item Type:Preprint
Additional Information:20 pages; 94 refs
Keywords:dynamic complexity; chaos; dynamically multivalued behaviour; probabilistic dynamical fractal; symmetry of complexity; revolution of complexity; sustainable development
Subjects:Philosophy > Philosophy of Science
ID Code:5589
Deposited By: Kirilyuk, Andrei
Deposited On:07 Jun 2007
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:56

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