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  • A Crude Look at the Whole

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    A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challengesImagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is ... Leer más

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  • High-Temperature Superconducting Materials

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    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
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