Complexity

Complexity

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

4 mentors recommend this 380 pages

"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

Bill Gurley

Finance & Investing

"Read this book, it changes everything."

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"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

Michael Mauboussin

Finance & Investing

"Documents the early days of [Santa Fe Institute] and explains many of the big ideas."

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"For people who want to understand the basic concepts of complexity."

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Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon

Finance & Investing

"On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books."

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