books about: complexity     books:     Complexity      The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing ... Charles Petzold Wiley, 2008 should be on every aspiring mathematician's bookshelf this is a fantastic book. It manages to explain simply and clearly the entirety of turing's landmark paper and providing a thorough grounding on the base mathematical knowledge. though I had taken some set theory in college, I am fairly confident that even a devoted ...             A New Kind of Science Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Media, 2002 Big, Beautiful and Formidable I received A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram in July 2002. It sits on a shelf in a place of honor. Occasionally, I take it down and open it as one would an expensive Bible. Someday, I'll really study it. Until then I love its feel, its heft, its marvelous and ...             Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in ... John H. Miller, Scott E. Page Princeton University Press, 2007 very good introduction to the subject A nice introduction material. You will learn how complex phenomena are currently studied . I will use this book as an intro material to complex systems in my economics course. My only complain is that the book scarcelly discuss aplications in social sciences!!! I ...             Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics Eric D. Beinhocker Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Astonishing and brilliant Don't be put off by the lengthy critiques found here. You may get the feeling that these reviewers should be writing their own books. If they actually did so, I'd bet they would find that one can't cite every sentence, can't reference every economist who ever ...             Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Eric Evans Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Excellent book If your process for writing an application is to start with the database, or to start designing UI, you should read this book. There is nothing new in this book -- but you really should read it. This book details the way many architects and analysts have been ...             Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition Michael Sipser Course Technology, 2005 Running out of superlatives to describe this book This book has unbelievably clear explanations. Actually it is so good that it makes the lecturer superfluous. For years I felt I did not really understand the proof of the Cook Levin theorem. Sure, I had Garey and Johnson, and I more or less could follow the proof, but ...             Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos M. Mitchell Waldrop Simon & Schuster, 1992 A superb account of the emergence of the science of Emergent Complexity. This is a brilliant and riveting account of the birth of the science of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute told in the form of detailed and human biographical profiles of some the leading scientific voices in the movement. Some reviewers here have complained that ...             Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion Stuart Kauffman Basic Books, 2008 A Beautiful Book, But Missing Just One Thing This book was a pleasure to read, very well-written and effectively integrating many important concepts from physics, biology, philosophy, cosmology, neurology, law, current events, economics, and other topics into a perspective that finds awe in the unfolding ...             Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Robert Venturi "The Museum of Modern Art, New York", 1977 Gateway towards looking at architecture I had to read this book for a class specifically regarding Robert Venturi and the postmodernism movement that he became a leading proponent of. However, this book is NOT a manifesto for a postmodern vacabulary- rather, this book looks at all architecture from the ...             Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) Jeffrey Kluger Hyperion, 2008 Zero-intelligence investors instead of perfectly rational presumption 1. Blake Lebaron at Brandeis University has built a stock market virtual market allowing him to stimulate behaviors of bull, bear, static, active, and mixed and then release simulated investors into the environment. When someone tries a new strategy and do quite well, ...             Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Jossey-Bass, 2001 Unexpectedly a good read I was please with the writing of this book. Not only is it a good easy read, but Weick presents the material in an intersting fashion. SO far, it has been most helpful in understanding the components of managing a situation that is completely unexpected.             Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences) Gregory Bateson Hampton Press, 2002 You're Smarter Than You Think You Are Sit in on a lecture by an engaging and knowledgable prof and you can expect to pick up a few tidbits. You certainly don't expect to come away knowing everything the prof knows. The subtitle of this book is about what Bateson knows, but you don't need to know any of ...             The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and ... Ervin Laszlo Hampton Press, 1996 Fundamental to understand modern science and philosophy Systems thinking is more than another new field of scientific and philosophical research. It leads to a new world view, integrating the sciences of nature and man. It is a world view for our times, explaining some some of our most cherished successes and some of our ...             Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity) Joshua M. Epstein Princeton University Press, 2007 A Landmark Publication Josh Epstein's new Opus is a landmark publication in the emerging field of multiagent-based simulation of dynamic social systems. Since Josh is not only one of this still nascent (though burgeoning) field's ablest and most creative practitioners, but also among its ...             The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: (Princeton Studies in Complexity) Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, ... Princeton University Press, 2006 Vice President IT Global Business Initiavies Excellent resource to follow the progress of Network Science through the history of the field up to the present day. I would definitlly recommend this book to anyone embarking on a social netowkring track. 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