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4. History of Complexity Management

Author : Maik Maurer

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Abstract

A historical classification shall provide a better understanding and explain the fundamentals of modern complexity management. Thinking about the phenomenon of complexity and dealing with this challenge can be traced back to ancient Greece. From the seventeenth century on, exceptional mathematicians like Isaac Newton and in the nineteenth century philosophers like Emanuel Kant were dealing with complexity and changed the view of the world. And scientific and methodical knowledge about modern complexity management has been aggregated over a time span of approximately 70 years. Significant challenges like those presented by the Second World War, the Cold War and the beginning of astronautics acted as catalysts for developments on complexity management. Thus, complexity management is not an invention made at the end of the twentieth century. It is based on long-term developments originating from different disciplines. This chapter will give a deeper insight into the historical development.

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Title
History of Complexity Management
Author
Maik Maurer
Copyright Year
2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Complexity Management in Engineering Design – a Primer

Print ISBN: 978-3-662-53447-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-53448-9

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53448-9_4