Complexity：The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
出版时间:
1993-09
ISBN:
9780671872342
定价:
145.20
装帧:
平装
开本:
其他
纸张:
其他
页数:
384页
正文语种:
英语
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InarentedconventinSantaFe,arevolutionhasbeenbrewing.Theactivistsarenotanarchists,butratherNobelLaureatesinphysicsandeconomicssuchasMurrayGell-MannandKennethArrow,andpony-tailedgraduatestudents,mathematicians,andcomputerscientistsdownfromLosAlamos.They'veformedaniconoclasticthinktankcalledtheSantaFeInstitute,andtheirradicalideaistocreateanewsciencecalledcomplexity.Thesemavericksfromacademeshareadeepimpatiencewiththekindoflinear,reductionistthinkingthathasdominatedsciencesincethetimeofNewton.Instead,theyaregatheringnovelideasaboutinterconnectedness,coevolution,chaos,structure,andorder-andthey'reforgingthemintoanentirelynew,unifiedwayofthinkingaboutnature,humansocialbehavior,life,andtheuniverseitself.Theywanttoknowhowaprimordialsoupofsimplemoleculesmanagedtoturnitselfintothefirstlivingcell-andwhattheoriginoflifesomefourbillionyearsagocantellusabouttheprocessoftechnologicalinnovationtoday.Theywanttoknowwhyancientecosystemsoftenremainedstableformillionsofyears,onlytovanishinageologicalinstant-andwhatsucheventshavetodowiththesuddencollapseofSovietcommunisminthelate1980s.Theywanttoknowwhytheeconomycanbehaveinunpredictablewaysthateconomistscan'texplain-andhowtherandomprocessofDarwiniannaturalselectionmanagedtoproducesuchwonderfullyintricatestructuresastheeyeandthekidney.Aboveall,theywanttoknowhowtheuniversemanagestobringforthcomplexstructuressuchasgalaxies,stars,planets,bacteria,plants,animals,andbrains.Therearecommonthreadsinallofthesequeries,andtheseSantaFescientistsseektounderstandthem.Complexityistheirstory:themessy,funny,humanstoryofhowsciencereallyhappens.HereisthetaleofBrianArthur,theBelfast-borneconomistwhostubbornlypushedhistheoriesofeconomicch M. Mitchell Waldrop has his doctorate in elementary particle physics and is the author of Man-Made Minds. He spent ten years as a senior writer for Science magazine, where he is now a contributing correspondent.,,
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内容简介:
InarentedconventinSantaFe,arevolutionhasbeenbrewing.Theactivistsarenotanarchists,butratherNobelLaureatesinphysicsandeconomicssuchasMurrayGell-MannandKennethArrow,andpony-tailedgraduatestudents,mathematicians,andcomputerscientistsdownfromLosAlamos.They'veformedaniconoclasticthinktankcalledtheSantaFeInstitute,andtheirradicalideaistocreateanewsciencecalledcomplexity.Thesemavericksfromacademeshareadeepimpatiencewiththekindoflinear,reductionistthinkingthathasdominatedsciencesincethetimeofNewton.Instead,theyaregatheringnovelideasaboutinterconnectedness,coevolution,chaos,structure,andorder-andthey'reforgingthemintoanentirelynew,unifiedwayofthinkingaboutnature,humansocialbehavior,life,andtheuniverseitself.Theywanttoknowhowaprimordialsoupofsimplemoleculesmanagedtoturnitselfintothefirstlivingcell-andwhattheoriginoflifesomefourbillionyearsagocantellusabouttheprocessoftechnologicalinnovationtoday.Theywanttoknowwhyancientecosystemsoftenremainedstableformillionsofyears,onlytovanishinageologicalinstant-andwhatsucheventshavetodowiththesuddencollapseofSovietcommunisminthelate1980s.Theywanttoknowwhytheeconomycanbehaveinunpredictablewaysthateconomistscan'texplain-andhowtherandomprocessofDarwiniannaturalselectionmanagedtoproducesuchwonderfullyintricatestructuresastheeyeandthekidney.Aboveall,theywanttoknowhowtheuniversemanagestobringforthcomplexstructuressuchasgalaxies,stars,planets,bacteria,plants,animals,andbrains.Therearecommonthreadsinallofthesequeries,andtheseSantaFescientistsseektounderstandthem.Complexityistheirstory:themessy,funny,humanstoryofhowsciencereallyhappens.HereisthetaleofBrianArthur,theBelfast-borneconomistwhostubbornlypushedhistheoriesofeconomicch
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作者简介:
M. Mitchell Waldrop has his doctorate in elementary particle physics and is the author of Man-Made Minds. He spent ten years as a senior writer for Science magazine, where he is now a contributing correspondent.,,
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