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Record Nr.

UNISA996495170603316

Autore

Jost Jürgen

Titolo

The evolution of chemical knowledge : a formal setting for its analysis / / Jürgen Jost, Guillermo Restrepo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-031-10094-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 pages)

Collana

Wissenschaft und Philosophie - Science and Philosophy - Sciences et Philosophie

Disciplina

737

Soggetti

Chemistry

Història de la química

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I Chemical Knowledge as a Complex Dynamical System -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge -- 1.2 Chemical Knowledge at the Centre of Material, Social and Semiotic Interactions -- 1.3 Chemistry's Benefits from Studying the Evolution of its Knowledge -- 2 Modelling the Evolution of Chemical Knowledge -- 2.1 Systems and Complex Systems -- 2.2 Chemical Knowledge and its Three Systems -- 2.2.1 The Social System -- 2.2.2 The Semiotic System -- 2.2.3 The Material System -- 3 Evolution of the Constitutive Systems of Chemical Knowledge -- 3.1 Evolution of the Social System -- 3.2 Evolution of the Semiotic System -- 3.3 Evolution of the Material System -- 4 Interactions Between Systems, Their Differences and Environments -- 4.1 Material-Semiotic Interactions -- 4.2 Social-Semiotic Interactions -- 4.3 Material-Social Interactions -- 4.4 Lavoisier: Bridging Systems of Chemical Knowledge -- 4.5 Interactions Between the Material, the Semiotic and the Social System of Chemistry -- 4.6 Differences Among the Constitutive Systems of Chemical Knowledge and Their Temporalities -- 4.7 Environments of the Constitutive Systems of Chemical Knowledge -- Part II Data and Mathematical and Computational Formalisms for the Analysis of



Chemical Knowledge -- 5 Data -- 5.1 Material System -- 5.2 Social System -- 5.3 Semiotic System -- 6 Methods -- 6.1 Hypergraphs -- 6.2 Complexity Measures -- 6.3 Time Series Analysis -- 6.4 Statistical Physics Methods -- 6.5 Agent-Based Modelling -- 6.6 Language Theory -- 6.7 Formal Concept Analysis -- 6.8 Text Analysis and Computational Semiotics/Semantics -- 6.9 Machine Learning -- 7 Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Index.