Complexity: A Guided Tour

by Melanie Mitchell and Melanie Mitchell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199798109
• ISBN13: 9780199798100
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"