Description: Complexity : A Guided Tour, Hardcover by Mitchell, Melanie, ISBN 0195124413, ISBN-13 9780195124415, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 companionabl, 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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Book Title: Complexity : a Guided Tour
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Life Sciences / General, General
Publication Year: 2009
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Science
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 6.2 in
Author: Melanie Mitchell
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
