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Complexity : the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos / M. Mitchel Waldrop

by M. Waldrop

An account of the Santa Fe Institute and the development of complexity science. Researchers from various disciplines explore how simple components produce complex systems in nature, economics, and human behaviour through chaos theory and self-organisation.

Accession 9503 ISBN 0670850454 Publisher Viking
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