Complex Systems


Complexity: A Guided Tour
Chaos: Making a New Science
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
A New Kind of Science
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality
Thinking In Systems by Donella H. MeadowsThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraSystems Thinking For Social Change by David Peter StrohThe Fifth Discipline by Peter M. SengeThe Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
Systems Thinking
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James Gleick
A chaotic system could be stable if its particular brand of irregularity persisted in the face of small disturbances.
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick
By contrast, a twentieth-century fluid dynamicist could hardly expect to advance knowledge in his field without first adopting a body of terminology and mathematical technique. In return, unconsciously, he would give up much freedom to question the foundations of his science.
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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