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It is an interesting and quick read for the most part. Danes eschew confrontation, but he was arrogant and loved to fight with his colleagues in academia. Per bak was known worldwide for his contributions to the physics of complex systems and was one of the. The image of the sand pile, retaining its conical shape as more sand is added, became widely known.

The late per baks concept of selforganized criticality soc, first stated in his seminal papers with chao. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised statethe critical statewhere anything can happen within welldefined statistical laws. With per bak s death on 16 october 2002, denmark lost one of its most prominent scientists. How nature works the science of self organized criticality copernicus 1996. Others about per bak he was the most american of danes, said predrag cvitanovic. How nature works by per bak, 9780387987385, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The science of selforganised criticality presented a new concept to the wider scientific community. I have read other books on self organized criticality that were far less.

The science of selforganized criticality by per bak. How nature works is the first book to deal with the subject. An excerpt from how nature works the science of self. Bak is survived by his second wife, maya paczuski, a fellow physicist at imperial college with whom he has coauthored papers, and his four children. Per bak s book how nature works is about the theory of self organizing criticality and its applicability to a variety of questions and problems in several sciences. The science of selforganised criticality presented a new concept to the wider scientific community, that of selforganised criticality. How nature works blair gemmer graduate computer science. The science of selforganised criticality, authorper bak, year1996.