Complexity

Mitchell M. Waldrop

文学

复杂 complexity 科普 复杂系统 混沌 科学 混沌理论 英文

1992-1-15

Simon & Schuster

内容简介
In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity. These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself. 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. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - and what such events have to do with the sudden collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s. They want to know why the economy can behave in unpredictable ways that economists can't explain - and how the random process of Darwinian natural selection managed to produce such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and the kidney. Above all, they want to know how the universe manages to bring forth complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. There are commonthreads in all of these queries, and these Santa Fe scientists seek to understand them. Complexity is their story: the messy, funny, human story of how science really happens. Here is the tale of Brian Arthur, the Belfast-born economist who stubbornly pushed his theories of economic ch
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    关于放手 I can't stay with her anymore because she doesn't exist. I wish. I wish more than anything. But I can't imagine you with all your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real wife. You're the best I can do;
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    Paul Bell is a lecturer in our department. His research is on computability & complexity of mathematical structures, hybrid systems and CPU power management. He is also Part A tutor for our department 网页链接
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    Random thoughts for today: For solutions, we should seek from the root ideas to get the simplest way for solving problems. But the complexity of the solution is all depends on our real needs.
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    #天天英语#【名人语录】The barrier to change is not too little caring;it is too much complexity.改变世界的阻碍,并非人类的冷漠,而是世界实在太复杂。---比尔·盖茨
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    日子快又慢,早上总喜欢在被窝里再躺一个小时。温暖的被窝我的爱。[哈哈]周末又该写complexity的作业了。[泪][泪]
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    [I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.] ——Oliver Wendell Holmes
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