Sign in with Facebook
14 books
—
4 voters
Complexity Theory Books
Showing 1-50 of 239
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,486 ratings — published 2009
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,284 ratings — published 2003
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,127 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,700 ratings — published 1987
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,469 ratings — published 2017
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,183 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 — 461 ratings — published 2007
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 136 ratings — published 2007
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,488 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 4.02 — 1,430 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 — 5,217 ratings — published 2002
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,694 ratings — published 2008
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 138 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,102 ratings — published 1996
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 279 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 — 1,789 ratings — published 1994
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,720 ratings — published 1989
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 652 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 — 1,458 ratings — published 2023
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 235 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 3.99 — 180 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 — 850,537 ratings — published 2000
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,869 ratings — published 2007
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.51 — 489 ratings — published 2014
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 452 ratings — published 2011
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 389 ratings — published 1995
Fractals Everywhere (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 74 ratings — published 1988
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 894 ratings — published 2009
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,173 ratings — published 1979
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 697 ratings — published 2012
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 268 ratings — published 1998
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 335 ratings — published 1996
Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 102 ratings — published 2004
On Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 91 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 3.71 — 200 ratings — published 2016
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.49 — 467 ratings — published 2007
Computational Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 142 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 4.15 — 34 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 — 114 ratings — published 1992
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,591 ratings — published 2007
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
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
Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World through the Science of Surprise (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.52 — 99 ratings — published 1995
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 634 ratings — published 1984
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 315 ratings — published 1992
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as complexity-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,012 ratings — published 2011
The Market and Other Orders (The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek)
by (shelved 1 time as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2014
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as complexity-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 369 ratings — published 1998
“All the evidence from the science of complexity says that given certain clear parameters...communities or teams will become self-organizing. They will be attracted to certain flowing states of organization natural to the people who make them up. In complexity theory, these flowing states are poetically called strange attractors. ...
A work team made up of collaborating individuals would...have, if you could measure and plot creativity, failure, and success, a strange attractor that depicted the edges and patterns of the team's behavior. This pattern would be constrained by the forces operating within the company and outside in the market, but it would be most affected by the focus and vision of the team. A strong vision and purpose acts as a kind of strange attractor, allowing individual creativity while acting as a natural constraint to behavior that is detrimental to the team. Without repressive rules, then, a cohesive team with a strong sense of its mission, ethics, and tasks can be allowed a lot of leeway to develop its own approach to problems.”
― The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
A work team made up of collaborating individuals would...have, if you could measure and plot creativity, failure, and success, a strange attractor that depicted the edges and patterns of the team's behavior. This pattern would be constrained by the forces operating within the company and outside in the market, but it would be most affected by the focus and vision of the team. A strong vision and purpose acts as a kind of strange attractor, allowing individual creativity while acting as a natural constraint to behavior that is detrimental to the team. Without repressive rules, then, a cohesive team with a strong sense of its mission, ethics, and tasks can be allowed a lot of leeway to develop its own approach to problems.”
― The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
“Complexity in martial arts is the key to ineffectiveness.”
―
―
