scientific is climate change a threat? does global warming exist? is co2 the driving factor? or is it all just an elaborate hoax? but taking a step back first, what can we know ? what is science ? what are laws of nature ? what can be sai
scientific complex systems are composed of many interconnected parts and cannot be tackled analytically, i.e., by using closed-form mathematical expressions. complex systems come from many domains: socio-economic technological biological they ar
Lecture slides prepared for the university of Essex working group: Stylized Facts in FX
Talks given at the annual meeting of the German Physical Society, Berlin, Germany:
The Backbone of Control, Working Group Physics of Socio-Economic Systems (AKSOE):
1932: “The rest is chemistry.”; C. D. Anderson; echoing the success of a reductionist approach to understanding the workings of nature after having discovered the positron.
1972: “At each stage [of complexity] entirely new laws, concepts, and gene
The study of complex networks was sparked at the end of the 90s with two seminal papers, describing their universal:
small-worlds property [1],
and scale-free nature [2] (see also this older post: scaling laws).
Today, networks are ubiquitous