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- catalog contributor b881155.
- catalog created "[1975]".
- catalog date "1975".
- catalog date "[1975]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1975]".
- catalog description "1. The problem -- The complexity of the world -- Mechanism and mechanics -- The square law of computation -- The simplification of science and the science of simplification -- Statistical mechanics and the law of large numbers -- The law of medium numbers -- 2: The approach -- Organism, analogy, and vitalism -- The scientist and his categories -- The main article of general systems faith -- The nature of general systems laws -- Varieties of systems thinking -- 3: System and illusion -- A system is a way of looking at the world -- Absolute and relative thinking -- A system is a set -- Observers and observations -- The principle of indifference -- Chapter 4: Interpreting observations -- States -- The eye-brain law -- The generalized thermodynamic law -- Functional notation and reductionist thought -- Incompleteness and overcompleteness -- The generalized law of complemnentarity -- 5: Breaking down observations -- The metaphors of science -- Boundaries and things -- Qualities and the principle of invariance -- Partitions -- The strong connection law -- 6: Describing behavior -- Simulation--The white box -- State spaces -- Time as a standard of behavior -- Behavior in open systems -- The principle of indeterminability -- 7: Some systems questions -- The systems triumvirate -- Stability -- Survival -- Identity -- Regulation and adaptation -- The used car law.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 279 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Introduction to general systems thinking.".
- catalog identifier "0471925632".
- catalog isFormatOf "Introduction to general systems thinking.".
- catalog isPartOf "Wiley series on systems engineering and analysis".
- catalog issued "1975".
- catalog issued "[1975]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Wiley,".
- catalog relation "Introduction to general systems thinking.".
- catalog subject "003".
- catalog subject "General systems theory".
- catalog subject "Q 295 W423i 1975".
- catalog subject "Q295 .W44 1975".
- catalog subject "System theory.".
- catalog subject "Systems Analysis".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The problem -- The complexity of the world -- Mechanism and mechanics -- The square law of computation -- The simplification of science and the science of simplification -- Statistical mechanics and the law of large numbers -- The law of medium numbers -- 2: The approach -- Organism, analogy, and vitalism -- The scientist and his categories -- The main article of general systems faith -- The nature of general systems laws -- Varieties of systems thinking -- 3: System and illusion -- A system is a way of looking at the world -- Absolute and relative thinking -- A system is a set -- Observers and observations -- The principle of indifference -- Chapter 4: Interpreting observations -- States -- The eye-brain law -- The generalized thermodynamic law -- Functional notation and reductionist thought -- Incompleteness and overcompleteness -- The generalized law of complemnentarity -- 5: Breaking down observations -- The metaphors of science -- Boundaries and things -- Qualities and the principle of invariance -- Partitions -- The strong connection law -- 6: Describing behavior -- Simulation--The white box -- State spaces -- Time as a standard of behavior -- Behavior in open systems -- The principle of indeterminability -- 7: Some systems questions -- The systems triumvirate -- Stability -- Survival -- Identity -- Regulation and adaptation -- The used car law.".
- catalog title "An introduction to general systems thinking / Gerald M. Weinberg.".
- catalog type "text".