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Science 18 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5874, pp. 322 - 323
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156940
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Perspectives

MATHEMATICS:
Frustration in Complexity

P.-M. Binder

The common thread between all complex systems may not be cooperation but rather the irresolvable coexistence of opposing tendencies.

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720, USA. E-mail: pbinder{at}hawaii.edu

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