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Complexity Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,611 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,192 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 41,688 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 23,621 ratings — published 2008
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,449 ratings — published 1995
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,659 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,582 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,325 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,764 ratings — published 2006
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,262 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,360 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,896 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 389 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.02 — 350 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,201 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.19 — 283 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,629 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.51 — 475 ratings — published 2007
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,807 ratings — published 1994
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.01 — 184 ratings — published
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 30 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,512 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,541 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 805 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,336 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.00 — 269 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 25 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,201 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 23 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.15 — 908 ratings — published 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,544 ratings — published 1994
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,729 ratings — published 1992
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,295 ratings — published 1977
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,944 ratings — published 1996
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.68 — 203 ratings — published 2016
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.06 — 654 ratings — published 1984
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,398 ratings — published 1984
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,505 ratings — published 2001
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,619 ratings — published 2023
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,064 ratings — published 1977
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.85 — 320 ratings — published 1992
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 440 ratings — published 1969
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 505 ratings — published 2014
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 245 ratings — published 2009
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.14 — 98 ratings — published 2014
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,739 ratings — published 1989
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.93 — 455 ratings — published 1996
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,098 ratings — published 2010
“Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.”
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“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark," as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork." But the book represents the dreams of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau words" in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark," in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.”
― The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
― The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
