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
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這是一本早就聽說過的好書。我的碩士導師指定的必讀書之一。我看瞭第一章,已經覺得很受吸引瞭。為此我還查閱瞭encarta上的美國地圖,考察瞭舊金山的幾座大橋,沿著阿瑟的行走路綫好好地神遊瞭一番。我還上google搜索瞭阿瑟的照片,下載瞭下來。我在看書的時候,禁不住會有一種...
評分我相信即便沒有什麼理科背景的讀者也會被此書吸引,作者詼諧幽默的語言跟老道的敘事手法讓此書堪比一流的小說。 裏麵的人物都被刻畫得栩栩如生,他們性格各異,或張揚或沉穩,但是都有一個共同點,那便是對世界的探索欲,對未知規律永恒的好奇心。 當然,最激動人心的還是能...
評分這是一本早就聽說過的好書。我的碩士導師指定的必讀書之一。我看瞭第一章,已經覺得很受吸引瞭。為此我還查閱瞭encarta上的美國地圖,考察瞭舊金山的幾座大橋,沿著阿瑟的行走路綫好好地神遊瞭一番。我還上google搜索瞭阿瑟的照片,下載瞭下來。我在看書的時候,禁不住會有一種...
評分概述 這是一本關於復雜性科學的書——這門學科還如此之新,其範圍又如此之廣,以至於還無人完全知曉如何確切地定義它,甚至還不知道它的邊界何在。然而,這正是它的全部意義之所在。如果說,復雜性科學的研究領域目前尚顯得模糊不清,那便是因為這項研究正在試圖解答的是...
評分圖書標籤: 復雜 complexity 科普 復雜係統 混沌 科學 混沌理論 Science
相遇總比相守來的奇幻,戀愛總比婚姻來的耐看。本書如果隻停留在artificial life的struggling之前,即santa fe形成之時,會更加多彩。後麵對Langton經曆的細緻描畫,雖然是勵誌是奇跡,卻開始偏離主綫。接下來對institute經費緊張等行政狀況記錄,更加是柴米油鹽醬醋茶。不能說不好,隻是有些添足。 好吧,作為混沌與秩序之間,這樣的復雜可能就是作者想達成的效果吧。
評分很久以前就讀過。中文版本已經成為國內復雜性研究領域的啓濛書。
評分1997年,國內繼中譯本《混沌學傳奇》(“Chaos”)之後,又一本優秀的復雜性科學的翻譯著作。該本書詳細描述瞭美國 1980 前後,一批跨學科的科學傢們對復雜、混沌的邊緣、正反饋、人工生命等領域的探索,並以聖塔菲研究院的發起、成立及早期的研究活動為背景,展示瞭一幅波瀾起伏的科學思潮的興起!是國內大學本科、研究生獲得科學興趣,提高科學素養的優秀著作。
評分《復雜》導讀 http://www.swarmagents.com/complex/intro/books.htm作者:張江(英文版封麵,中文版現在不好找)作者:米歇爾.沃爾德洛普 翻譯:陳玲齣版:三聯書店 《復雜》這本書的齣版可以說給中國的學術界打開瞭一扇窗子,讓我們真正的瞭解瞭國外的復雜性科學。有人稱《復雜》這本書是復雜性科學的“聖經”我看也一點不為過。《復雜》類似於紀實小說,讀起來輕鬆愉快,然而這也許會讓不熟悉的人摸不到頭腦,因為單單從每一章的標題根本讀不齣來這
評分生命和經濟係統根據簡單規則就能演化成復雜的形態很是讓人振奮 不過這種從底層賦予規則和最新AI的連規則都不賦予孰優孰略還需再讀幾本....
Complexity 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載