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Complexity: A Guided Tour

作者 Melanie Mitchell
出版社 Ingram International Inc
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內容簡介

內容簡介 What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them. Richly illustrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour--winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science--offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

商品規格

書名 / Complexity: A Guided Tour
作者 / Melanie Mitchell
簡介 / Complexity: A Guided Tour:Whatenablesindividuallysimpleinsectslikeantstoactwithsuchprecisionandpurposeasagroup?Howdotrillionsofneuronsproducesomethingasextraor
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9780199798100
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9780199798100
誠品26碼 /
重量(g) / 476.3
裝訂 / P:平裝
級別 / N:無
尺寸 / 23.4X15.5X2.5CM
頁數 / 368
語言 / 3:英文

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