Melanie Mitchell Complexity (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: Complexity Condition: New EAN: 9780199798100 ISBN: 9780199798100 Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Format: Paperback Release Date: 11/24/2011 Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 155mm Item Width: 29mm Language: English Subtitle: A Guided Tour ISBN-10: 0199798109 Description: 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. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Science Nature & Math Author: Melanie Mitchell Item Weight: 476g Release Year: 2011 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
