This title includes the following features: Broad principles widelyapplicable in modern physics, computer science, mathematics, complexity theory,and biology.; Exciting exercises, introducing new fields and illustrating broadprinciples.; Powerful, advanced methods presented simply - new, modern conceptsdistilled and incorporated into undergraduate-level presentation.; Hundreds ofillustrations and figures illustrating theory, experiment, and applications.;Hundreds of marginal notes providing background, illustration, vocabulary, andadvanced concepts.