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.
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
2019.1.5 由于作者是计算机科学的专业人士,本书偏重于计算机方面的知识,而且相当细节和广泛。对一般读者仅仅需要了解大概即可。 单个体很简单,群体可以很复杂,系统的复杂性可以从众多例子看到,如行军蚁,免疫系统等等。 亚里士多德,伽利略,牛顿的动力学延伸发展出庞加莱...
评分1.根据热力学第二定律 孤立系统的熵永不自动减少,熵在可逆过程中不变,在不可逆过程中增加。 2.世界只能从有序到无序。 生命来源于有序的太阳能量。 3.生命的不断创造把局部无序变为有序, 让整体更无序 。例 空调运行热量运行。 4.人类的意义在于为了更快...
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评分虽然不算a novel scientific worldview,全面细致的内容让人view things from a higher level.
评分很久没有读到这种‘想要一口气读完‘的书
评分好像看错书了=。。=
评分故事和知识合理分配,非常易懂的科普书。让我重温了很多以前似懂非懂的概念。model那部分强烈感受到在上simulating language感觉,结果随手搜了下,发现Simon还真的引用过她的作品。后面一些章节稍微有点冗余。
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