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"In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity." "These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself." "They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell - and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - a

Who reads Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos?

Author

M. Mitchell Waldrop, Mikael Naramore

Publisher

Audible Studios on Brilliance; Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781713520795

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Physics, Theories Of Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14