Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
A narrative history of the birth of complexity science, following an interdisciplinary community seeking to understand complex adaptive systems—how simple local interactions among many agents produce emergent order at the edge of chaos. Drawing on physics, biology, economics, and computation, it chronicles breakthroughs in self-organization, adaptation, artificial life, genetic algorithms, and agent-based modeling, revealing new ways to think about ecosystems, markets, brains, and societies, and the limits of prediction in nonlinear, evolving worlds.
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- Published
- 1992
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 380-400
- Original Language
- English
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