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An innovative way to treat languages and systems, describing them as information structures, which allows for a comparative study of their properties, despite the obvious differences among their natures. To unveil some of the mysteries underlying all sort of languages _from music to natural languages and from bi-dimensional graphical representations to the synthesis of mathematics_ a wide range of representations and information transfer phenomena are described at several levels of detail. Languages, considered as the expression of complex systems, are analyzed by means of ingeniously developed algorithms and methods. A vast field for applications opens in front of these universal analysis tools, promising a dense learning time to come.

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Gerardo Luis Febres A¤ez is mechanical engineer from Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), Venezuela. He holds a Master of Operations Research from Cornell University. He earned his PhD from USB, where he teaches systems´ modeling and optimization. Among his research interests are the modeling of systems at diverse scales and quantitative linguistics.

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