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  Complexity: A Guided Tour (Paperback) By (author) Melanie Mitchell

  

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  Short Description for ComplexityA fascinating look at the exciting new sciences of complexity and what they reveal about everything from ant colonies to the World Wide Web, now available in paperback
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Published: 24 November 2011
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Cybernetics & Systems Theory | Science: General Issues | Philosophy Of Science | Popular Science
  • ISBN 13: 9780199798100 ISBN 10: 0199798109
  • Sales rank: 78,305

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Full description for Complexity

• 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.