Complexity

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Mitchell M. Waldrop

页数:384

出版时间:1992-1-15

价格:USD 15.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780671872342

图书标签:复杂complexity科普复杂系统混沌科学混沌理论Science

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

读后感

花了两三个小时浏览完了这本书，简单评价一下： 这是一本传记性质的书，作为传记，写得非常精彩，译者译笔也非常传神。但如果任何人想要从中获得有价值的科学理论，那还是找两本专业的书来看看吧。整个这本书对于理论的描述是非常大而化之的（如果还不能算不靠谱的话），泛泛...  

生物体经常相互适应而得以进化，从而将自己组合成为精巧协调的平衡系统；原子通过相互化合得以找到最小的能量状态，从而使自己形成被称之为分子的结构。在所有这些情形中，一组组单个的动因在寻求相互适应与自我延续中或这样、或那样地超越了自己，从而获得了生命、思想、目的...  

生物体经常相互适应而得以进化，从而将自己组合成为精巧协调的平衡系统；原子通过相互化合得以找到最小的能量状态，从而使自己形成被称之为分子的结构。在所有这些情形中，一组组单个的动因在寻求相互适应与自我延续中或这样、或那样地超越了自己，从而获得了生命、思想、目的...  

这本书并非艰涩的物理教课书 这本书是引领你进入宇宙真理的导航 正像书评中说的，掌握了复杂系统的人，将成为是未来的超级力量 有点扯淡是吗？ 建议你先去了解一下混沌，自组织，和进化 看完全书，总结下来的复杂系统层次是这样的 1、正反馈和自组织 这是将静态，推向混沌...  

花了两三个小时浏览完了这本书，简单评价一下： 这是一本传记性质的书，作为传记，写得非常精彩，译者译笔也非常传神。但如果任何人想要从中获得有价值的科学理论，那还是找两本专业的书来看看吧。整个这本书对于理论的描述是非常大而化之的（如果还不能算不靠谱的话），泛泛...  

用户评价

相遇总比相守来的奇幻，恋爱总比婚姻来的耐看。本书如果只停留在artificial life的struggling之前，即santa fe形成之时，会更加多彩。后面对Langton经历的细致描画，虽然是励志是奇迹，却开始偏离主线。接下来对institute经费紧张等行政状况记录，更加是柴米油盐酱醋茶。不能说不好，只是有些添足。 好吧，作为混沌与秩序之间，这样的复杂可能就是作者想达成的效果吧。

《复杂》导读 http://www.swarmagents.com/complex/intro/books.htm作者：张江（英文版封面，中文版现在不好找）作者：米歇尔.沃尔德洛普 翻译：陈玲出版：三联书店 《复杂》这本书的出版可以说给中国的学术界打开了一扇窗子，让我们真正的了解了国外的复杂性科学。有人称《复杂》这本书是复杂性科学的“圣经”我看也一点不为过。《复杂》类似于纪实小说，读起来轻松愉快，然而这也许会让不熟悉的人摸不到头脑，因为单单从每一章的标题根本读不出来这

其实只看了前面的一些，后面的都是不停的在翻。。

1997年，国内继中译本《混沌学传奇》（“Chaos”）之后，又一本优秀的复杂性科学的翻译著作。该本书详细描述了美国 1980 前后，一批跨学科的科学家们对复杂、混沌的边缘、正反馈、人工生命等领域的探索，并以圣塔菲研究院的发起、成立及早期的研究活动为背景，展示了一幅波澜起伏的科学思潮的兴起！是国内大学本科、研究生获得科学兴趣，提高科学素养的优秀著作。

是一本叙述性的书，不过这种题材不是我的胃口。我喜欢直接去讲宇宙的道理。不过，这本书的有些内容，确实有enlight的作用，比如increaing return, network等。我非常建议，看看。