Understanding Science
John Maynard Smith, 3 June 1982
The Laws of the Game: How the principles of nature govern science
by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber.
Allen Lane, 347 pp., £14.95, March 1982,9780713914849 Show More
by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler, translated by Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber.
Allen Lane, 347 pp., £14.95, March 1982,
“... different structures and relationships are likely to behave. It is this familiarity that Eigen and Winkler try to convey. I can best explain this by giving an example. One of the things I learnt when I was an aircraft engineer during the war was that if a control system has a time delay in the feedback loop – that is, if some time elapses between a control ... ”
