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Yaneer baryam born 1959 is an american physicist, systems scientist, and founding president of the new england complex systems institute. Dynamics of complex systems studies in nonlinearity. The statistical mechanics of complex product development. A linear iterative map with unit coefficient is a model of free motion or propa. Dynamics of complex systems is a math book, one that demands either math skills i never had, or huge amounts of work.
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