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Complexity Theory Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,596 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,186 ratings — published 1992
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,652 ratings — published 2017
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,323 ratings — published 2003
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,632 ratings — published 1987
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,202 ratings — published 2002
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 138 ratings — published 2007
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,539 ratings — published 2004
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,447 ratings — published 1995
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,258 ratings — published 2002
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,520 ratings — published 2008
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 138 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,120 ratings — published 1996
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 282 ratings — published 1993
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,803 ratings — published 1994
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,764 ratings — published 2006
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 98 ratings — published 2014
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 549 ratings — published 2024
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,738 ratings — published 1989
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,577 ratings — published 2001
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 675 ratings — published 1969
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,608 ratings — published 2023
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 804 ratings — published 2014
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,539 ratings — published 1994
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 241 ratings — published 2005
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 183 ratings — published
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 862,051 ratings — published 2000
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,495 ratings — published 2007
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.51 — 504 ratings — published 2014
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 458 ratings — published 2011
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 389 ratings — published 1995
Fractals Everywhere (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 74 ratings — published 1988
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 907 ratings — published 2009
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,307 ratings — published 1979
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 721 ratings — published 2012
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 269 ratings — published 1998
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 349 ratings — published 1996
Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 104 ratings — published 2004
On Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 92 ratings — published 2008
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 203 ratings — published 2016
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.51 — 475 ratings — published 2007
Computational Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 141 ratings — published 1993
Descriptive Complexity (Texts in Computer Science)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1998
An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (Texts in Computer Science)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 36 ratings — published 1993
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 116 ratings — published 1992
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,808 ratings — published 2007
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 71 ratings — published 1992
“Complexity in martial arts is the key to ineffectiveness.”
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