Emerging Syntheses in Science: Proceedings of the Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute

by David Pines (Editor), Irven Devore (Contributor), John Tooby (Contributor)

Santa Fe, October 1984. Many of the most accomplished creative minds in science--including four Nobel laureates--gather to create an institution unlike any other: where unconventional thinking flourishes and disciplinary boundaries fall away. From this meeting emerged some of the most generative research programs of the last three decades, including the physics of living systems, the mathematics of society, quantitative archaeology, the nature of mind, fundamentals of complex systems theory--and the implications of all of these on the future. The original vision of a boundary-spanning research center became what Nature has called “that mecca of multidisciplinary complexity studies,” the Santa Fe Institute. With a new introduction by David Krakauer and Geoffrey West and an afterword by Stephen Wolfram, as well as never-before-published transcripts of the discussion sessions, this volume of seminal essays lays the foundation for thirty years of complexity science--and outlines challenges for thirty more.

Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2019

Reviews

[Denis Romanovsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's very hard to rate this book. It's a collection of defferent scientific essay the from SFI institute, it's a number of stories about the institute and some interviews.

Well, anyway, some of the essay on math, computing and cellar automata were deep and really good. Some other were not, or were just to hard for me to understand.