Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University. She has worked at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her major work has been in the areas of analogical reasoning, complex systems, genetic algorithms and cellular automata, and her publications in those fields are frequently cited
As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web - these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific understanding. Comprehending such systems seems to require a wholly new approach, one that goes beyond traditional scientific reductionism and that re-maps long-standing disciplinary boundaries. This remarkably accessible and companionable book, written by a leading complex systems scientist, provides an intimate, detailed 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. In this richly illustrated work, Melanie Mitchell describes in equal parts the history of ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for the field's contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our current century.
發表於2025-02-08
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之前被經濟學理論騙瞭幾年,然後又被哲學的後現代主義騙瞭幾年,接下來是演化心理學和演化生物學,於是為瞭謹防自己再次受騙,學習復雜性理論過程中,時刻提醒自己:謹防再次上當。 有些人看瞭個《三體》就覺得“三體問題”是解決所有問題的鑰匙(其實不過是復雜性係統的一支)...
評分啃瞭幾個星期,終於陸陸續續看完瞭。燒腦程度算是中等,雖然有的地方懵懵懂懂,不得要點,但也算是能基本理解。對於復雜性科學有瞭大緻的印象,我感覺復雜性科學是一種科學與哲學的混閤體。 與一般意義上的科學相比,它尚未發展到精確的地步,其中的很多概念,如復雜性,湧現,...
評分2019.1.5 由於作者是計算機科學的專業人士,本書偏重於計算機方麵的知識,而且相當細節和廣泛。對一般讀者僅僅需要瞭解大概即可。 單個體很簡單,群體可以很復雜,係統的復雜性可以從眾多例子看到,如行軍蟻,免疫係統等等。 亞裏士多德,伽利略,牛頓的動力學延伸發展齣龐加萊...
評分之前被經濟學理論騙瞭幾年,然後又被哲學的後現代主義騙瞭幾年,接下來是演化心理學和演化生物學,於是為瞭謹防自己再次受騙,學習復雜性理論過程中,時刻提醒自己:謹防再次上當。 有些人看瞭個《三體》就覺得“三體問題”是解決所有問題的鑰匙(其實不過是復雜性係統的一支)...
圖書標籤: 復雜係統 科普 Complexity 復雜 計算機 complexity 係統思考 英文原版
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評分network隻是complexity的一部分呀
評分好像看錯書瞭=。。=
評分終於(再次)在最需要乾正事兒的時候看完瞭一本“閑書”,越往後看的越不仔細,第三章定義信息的部分非常震撼, 還有第十二章講螞蟻怎樣通過費洛濛溝通真是解決瞭大學這麼多年的一大睏惑。感覺cellular automaton還是自己寫一個程序跑一下會看的比較直觀,因為沒有理解這類遊戲規則裏interaction的同時性與否對於outcome會不會有影響。
評分雖然不算a novel scientific worldview,全麵細緻的內容讓人view things from a higher level.
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