Complexity: The Emerging Science At The Edge Of Order And Chaos [EPUB]
E-Book Overview
In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.
This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century.
E-Book Information
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Year: 2,019
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Language: English
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Topic: 181
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Identifier: 9,781,504,059,145
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Org File Size: 4,356,862
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Extension: epub
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Tags:
complexity theory
science
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Toc: VISIONS OF THE WHOLE
1. The Irish Idea of a Hero
2. The Revolt of the Old Turks
3. Secrets of the Old One
4. “You Guys Really Believe That?”
5. Master of the Game
6. Life at the Edge of Chaos
7. Peasants Under Glass
8. Waiting for Carnot
9. Work in Progress
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR