Beyond Nonstructural Quantitative Analysis – Blown-Ups, Spinning Currents and Modern Science

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Mann, C.J.H. (2003), "Beyond Nonstructural Quantitative Analysis – Blown-Ups, Spinning Currents and Modern Science", Kybernetes, Vol. 32 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2003.06732cae.001

Beyond Nonstructural Quantitative Analysis – Blown-Ups, Spinning Currents and Modern Science

Beyond Nonstructural Quantitative Analysis – Blown-Ups, Spinning Currents and Modern Science

Yong Wu and Yi LinWorld ScientificLondon, New Jersey, Singapore2002344 pagesISBN: 981-02-4839-3US$58 (£39)

This is a subject of much interest in cybernetics and systems and has been the subject of a number of Contributions and special issues of this journal. The authors are well-known contributors to this journal.

In the publishers' abstract they say that:

the authors summarize the main scientific achievements of the blown-up theory of the evolution science, which was first seen in published form in 1994. At the same time, the authors explore, in the point of view and on the methodology of the blown-up theory, some possible generalizations of Newtonian particle mechanics, computationalschemes, developed on Newton's and Leibniz's calculus, and the scientific systems and the corresponding epistemological propositions, introduced and polished in the past 300 plus years.

In the text the authors explain the fundamental concepts such as:

Narrow and general observations and controls,the slavings of non-equal quantitative effects,mutual slavings of equal quantitative effects, etc.,

and also analyse a series of topics and problems of the current important research which is studied widely in the natural sciences. These include;

“The essence of motion”,“Waves vs vortices”,“Determinacy”,“The fundamental characteristic of forces”,“Evolution of fields and unification”,“Gravitational waves and universal gravitation”,The “dissipative structures”, “synergies”, “catastrophes”, introduced in the studies of the modern nonlinearity, andThe “macro- and microcosmic” evolutions, as studied in the “chaos” theory, Chemical reactions, andTheories on ecological and economical evolutions, etc.

Drs Wu and Lin produce an analysis and introduce new views and the corresponding methods. They also believe

That the quantitative analysis system, developed and widely employed in the past 300 plus years, originates from the slaving of that “transforming forms into numbers”, without touching on the acting objects – the “God”;

That the blown-up theory originates from the idea of mutual slavings of materials' structures so that “numbers are transformed into forms”. This end reveals the facts that nonlinearity is not a problem solvable in the first-push system, and that the materials' property of rotation is not only an epistemology but also a methodology.

They then write that nonlinearity is a second stir of mutual slavings of materials.

The ten individual chapters which follow a preface by S.C.Ou Yang are concerned with:

... Nonlinearity: The Conclusion of Calculus; Blown-Up Theory: The Beginning of the Era of Discontinuity; Puzzles of the Fluids Science; Questions About Nonlinear Macro-Evolution Theory; Problems Existing in Theories of Microscopic Evolutions; Some Problems Existing in the Field Theory; Difficulties Facing the Dynamics of Nonlinear. Chemical Reactions; Nonlinearity and Problems on Theories of Ecological Evolutions; Nonlinearity and the Blown-Up Theory of Economic Evolution Systems.

The authors also provide four appendices:

Records of OuYang's Thoughts and Dialectical Logics (1959-1996); An interview with Snoucneng Ou Yang; Four main flaws and ten major doubtful cases of the past 300 years; Structural Rolling Currents and disastrous Weather forecasting.

Finally, an “Afterwards” is followed by an index.

The book, we are told, can be used as a reference for self-study or research for those who are interested in evolutions that appear in the various scientific fields, the economic environment and natural philosophy. The potential readership, the publishers say, includes undergraduates, scientists, as well as general readers interested in popular science, nonlinear science or general mathematics.

Further details are available on: www.worldscientific.com and can be obtained from: http://www.amazon.com or at the local book shop.