Book Description:
The developments of theoretical physics in the field of complex systems and emergence has evidenced that many mathematical methods and traditional approaches can migrate towards biological and social systems. The deep physical explanation of such new vitality is simple in its essence and has to be searched in the universality of the emergence processes typical of the Middle Way suggested by the prophetic works of Anderson, Pines and Laughlin. In particular, the systems based on competition and co-operation and their sustainable dependence on the environment - well-known to the physicists since the Ising classical model - have provided a great deal of conceptual suggestions for the study of biological and social economic processes.

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Table of Contents:
Foreword

1) Living with Radical Uncertainty: The Exemplary Case of Folding Protein, pp. 1-9
(Ignazio Licata)

2) The Limits of Atomism, the Bohm Way of a New Ontology, pp. 11-19
(Ryo Morikawa)

3) Doing Mathematics about and with the Brain, pp. 21-55
(Michael Arbib)

4) Physics of Life from First Principles, pp. 57-132
(Michail Zak)

5) Theoretical Physics of DNA: New Ideas and Tendencies in
the Modeling of the DNA Nonlinear Dynamics, pp. 133-149
(Yakushevich L.V)

6) Mathematical and Data Mining Contributions to Dynamics and Optimization of Gene-Environment Networks, pp. 151-180
(Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Pakize Taylan , Basak Akteke-Oztürk, and Omür Ugur)

7) Folding Proteins:(How to Set up an Effcient Metrics for
Dealing with Complex Systems), pp. 181-190
(Alessandro Giuliani)

8) The (unfortunate) complexity of the economy, pp. 191-197
(Jean-Philippe-Bouchaud)

9) Evolution of Norms in a Multi-Level Selection Model of Conflict and Cooperation, pp. 199-212
(M. Pacheco, F. C. Santos and F. A. C. C. Chalub)

10) Dynamics of Coupled Players and the Evolution of Synchronous Cooperation-Dynamical Systems Games as General Frame for Systems Inter-Relationship, pp. 213-227
(Eizo Akiyama)

11) Fractal Time, Observer Perspectives and Levels of Description
in Nature, pp. 229-254
(Susie Vrobel)

Index