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Complexity - A Guided Tour (Paperback)
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Complexity - A Guided Tour (Paperback)
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What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such
precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons
produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In
this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex
systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the
sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain
how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can
emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on
her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its
interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the
workings of complexity across a broad range of biological,
technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general
principles or laws that apply to all of them. Richly illustrated,
Complexity: A Guided Tour--winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book
Award in Science--offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas
underlying complex systems science, the current research at the
forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to
solving some of the most important scientific questions of our
time.
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