Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order And Chaos (Penguin Science S.)

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order And Chaos (Penguin Science S.)

by M . Mitchell Waldrop (Author)

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In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. 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. This book is their story - the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the 21st century .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 27 Jan 1994

ISBN 10: 0140179682
ISBN 13: 9780140179682