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M. Mitchell Waldrop - Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

M. Mitchell Waldrop - Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

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An inspiring adventure of discovery

by jarno_m_l , Feb 22 '01
Pros: Wonderful introduction to the new unifying science, and to the adventure of science in progress.
Cons: Don't expect in-depth analysis - this is an appetizer, not the main course.
On a very normal day, seemingly out of the blue, the stock market takes a dive - a tremendous crash that sends stock brokers hurling out of windows in despair. What happened?

On a very normal stretch of geological time, the small animals...
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Complexity too Complex

by ktzos , May 22 '00
Pros: a non-technical panorama of chaos theory
Cons: too full of bloody details, hard to follow, written about characters not contributions
I read this book as a follow-up to Gladwell's Tipping Point at the advice of an Amazon.com user (see http://www.epinions.com/book-review-703A-6BDE51B-391611B1-prod4). Oops.

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Life Artificial and Otherwise

by wickengel , Jun 26 '00
Pros: clear succinct engaging intellectual profound
Cons: focus on systemics rather than math and science
"Complexity" is a "must read" for anyone interested in why systems work the way they do, in why the biggest changes happen or in why even the most energetic and promising intellectual movements have a short half-life. I made the...
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