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New disciplines have arisen as a result of such syntheses. For instance, quantum information processing amalgamates elements of quantum physics and computer science.

An interdisciplinary team is a team of people with training in different fields. Interdisciplinary teams are common in complex environments such as health care.

A few traditional disciplines could be considered as more interdisciplinary than others:

Some other, newer fields, such as cybernetics and systems theorySystems theory or general systems theory or systemics is an interdisciplinary field which studies systems as a whole. Systems theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby and others between the 1940s and the 1970s on principles from ph, are also highly interdisciplinary. All disciplines have important connections with other disciplines, however.

Factors that, arguably, have hindered interdisciplinary work are the traditional divisions that have been established between disciplines and the resulting homogeneity within academic bodies such as departments and specialized academic journals. Nevertheless, some of the most important interdisciplinary work has been done by people who have a definite "academic home" in one discipline.

Here are a few of the most important concepts that are arguably interdisciplinary, thus finding applications in several different fields:

1 Interdisciplinarity terms

• abstraction
• architectureArchitecture is the art and science of designing buildings. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of fu
• analogyAn analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity. Analogies are often used to explain new or complex concepts by showing the similarity between something familiar and something else. Analogy types In l
• chaos theoryChaos theory in mathematics and physics, deals with the behaviour of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly
• complexityThere are different senses of complexity In information processing, complexity is a measure of the total number of properties transmitted by an object and detected by an observer. Such a collection of properties is often referred to as a state. In physica
• controlThis article is about an engineering theory called control theory. There is also a sociological theory of deviant behavior that is called control theory. In engineering and mathematics, control theory deals with the behaviour of dynamical systems over tim
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