Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Choatic World
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Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Choatic World

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"SCIENCE JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST. . . An impeccably researched, amazingly up-to-date, crisply written and well-illustrated survey."
--Nature
At the cutting edge of the sciences, a dynamic new concept is emerging: complexity. In this groundbreaking new book, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield explore how complexity in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, and even the socia...more
Paperback, 480 pages
Published August 27th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published 1995)
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Michael Kerwin
Jul 29, 2011 Michael Kerwin added it
What an awesome book. Not only does it discuss Chaos Theory and how it pertains to everything from quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, evolution, and mathematics, but it brings to light the many interesting "characters" of science, like Turing and Von Neumann who contributed and are contributing to this multi-disciplinary field.
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This book is very well written. It's simply not what I expected. It dealt more with advances in computing then in the concept of complexity. While advances in computing have lead to an ability to manage higher orders and levels of complexity, it's not quite as fun as a book on complexity.

It would be a good book for someone who is interested in the history of complexity.
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