Complexity
"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 ki
ISBN: 9780670850457
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Vlad Zamfir
Technology"One of Vlad Zamfir's 3 answers to "what is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift?"
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Bill Gurley
Finance & Investing"Read this book, it changes everything."
book list View source ↗"This is such a great point. This is the essence of Complexity Theory. With complex systems (multi-variable, nonlinear), you have no idea if the variable you are using for analysis will hold over the long term. Read this book, it changes everything -"
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Michael Mauboussin
Finance & Investing"Documents the early days of [Santa Fe Institute] and explains many of the big ideas."
book list View source ↗"For people who want to understand the basic concepts of complexity."
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Jamie Dimon
Finance & Investing"On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books."
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