SFI Colloquium Thursday September25, 2003 Nam P. Suh, MIT 3:30pm

Posted by Roger Frye on
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Has anyone in the group read Professor Suh's book?

> ***  http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/events/abstract/80  ***
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>         To read Nam P. Suh's book "A Theory of Complexity and
> Applications" please go to:
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>          http://www.santafe.edu/~baes/ComplexityTheoryAndApplications 

Suh's approach to complexity is quite different from anything I have
seen elsewhere because he approaches it from a manufacturing design
perspective.  His theory contains a 3-way pun (or confusion) on the word
"complexity" -- complexity in the chaos sense, complexity in the
algorithmic hardness sense, and complexity in the complex plane sense.  
Within his breakdown of the components of complexity, he mentions
periodic complexity and imaginary complexity, but his periodic
complexity does not use Euler's identity -- exp(ix) = cos(x) + i
sin(x).  And his imaginary complexity refers to difficulties that our
imagination create.
-Roger