Name: Complexity: A Guided Tour
ISBN: 9780199798100

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Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

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What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them. Richly illustrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour--winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science--offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.

Book Details

Publisher: OUP Us
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2011
Pages: 368
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.10in - 1.00in - 1.05lb
EAN: 9780199798100
Categories: • System Theory• History

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About the Author

Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

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Illuminating math and science. Supported by @SimonsFdn. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.

In a new column, the AI researcher Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) unpacks the complexity inherent to aligning AI with human values like kindness and truthfulness. https://t.co/l49KSiAHf8

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What people are saying

Quanta Magazine

@QuantaMagazine

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Illuminating math and science. Supported by @SimonsFdn. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.

In a new column, the AI researcher Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) unpacks the complexity inherent to aligning AI with human values like kindness and truthfulness. https://t.co/l49KSiAHf8

COMPLEX SYSTEMS online courses, tutorials & other content, from the researchers of the Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience

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