About The Book
As we were at pains to point out in the companion volume to this mo- graph, entitled Complexity in Chemistry: Introduction and Fundamentals, complexity is to be encountered just about everywhere. All that is needed for us to see it is a suitably trained eye and it then appears almost magically in all manner of guises. Because of its ubiquity, complexity has been and currently still is being number of different ways. Some of these definitions have led us to major and powerful new insights. Thus, even in the present monograph, the important distinction is drawn between the concepts of complexity and complication and this is shown to have a significant bearing on how systems are modeled. Having said this, however, we should not fail to mention that the broad consensus that now gained acceptance is that all of the definitions of complexity are in the last analysis to be understood in essentially intuitive terms. Such definitions will therefore always have a certain degree of fuzziness with them. But this latter desideratum should in no way be viewed as diminishing the great usefulness of the concept in any of the many scientific disciplines to which it can be applied. In the chapters that are included in this monograph the fact that differing concepts of complexity can be utilized in a variety of disciplines is made explicit.
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