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From the inside of the cover jacket: WHAT ENABLES INDIVIDUALLY simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer. In this remarkably accessible and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate, detailed 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. Comprehending such systems requires a wholly new approach, one that goes beyond traditional scientific reductionism and that re-maps longstanding disciplinary boundaries. 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 soc

Who reads Complexity : A Guided Tour?

Author

Melanie Mitchell

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195124415

Category

science

Subjects

History, Fiction, Physics

Rating

4.03 / 5 (1,492 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13