Complexity : a guided tour / Melanie Mitchell.
| Author/creator | Mitchell, Melanie |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description | xvi, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Background and history. What is complexity? ; dynamics, chaos, and prediction ; Information ; Computation ; Evolution ; Genetics, simplified ; Defining and measuring complexity -- Life and evolution in computers. Self-reproducing computer programs ; Genetic algorithms -- Computation writ large. Cellular automata, life, and the universe ; Computing with particles ; Information processing in living systems ; How to make analogies (if you are a computer) ; Prospects of computer modeling -- Network thinking. The science of networks ; Applying network science to real-world networks ; The mystery of scaling ; Evolution, complexified -- Conclusion. The past and future of the sciences of complexity. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-336) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008023794 |
| ISBN | 9780195124415 |
| ISBN | 0195124413 |