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CRITICAL MASS

Ball's 2004 book ''Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another'' examines a wide range of topics including the Business Cycle Random Walk s, Phase Transition s, Bifurcation Theory Traffic Flow , Zipf's Law , Small World Phenomenon , Catastrophe Theory , the Prisoner's Dilemma . The overall theme is one of applying modern mathematical models to social and economic phenomena.

BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • ''The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science''

  • ''Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry''

  • ''Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another'', Random House 2004 . ISBN 0099457865

  • ''The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements'' ( 2002 )

  • ''Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colour''

  • ''Stories of The Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules'' ( 2001 )

  • ''H2O: A Biography of Water''

  • ''The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature''

  • ''Made To Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century''

  • ''Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier''



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