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Hi Owen,
if I may recommend a book:
Complexity: Hierarchical Structures and Scaling in Physics (Cambridge
Nonlinear Science Series)
by
Remo Badii, Antonio Politi
Here the amazon link:
http://tinyurl.com/eb78dSite of the author:
http://www.geocities.com/badii_remo/Despite the title, the book does not only draw examples from physics,
but also from other domains, like biology.
I became aware of the book after my extended rummagings
through Cosma Shalizi's site (especially his reviews, notebooks,
papers,... all very interesting :-)
Here's Cosma's review of the book:
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/badii-and-politi/And if I may quote the last sentence of the review:
"I wouldn't want to teach such a course to those who hadn't previously
been exposed to nonlinear dynamics, or who were unfamiliar with
statistical mechanics at the level of Part I of Landau and Lifshitz, say
second year graduate students in physics and applied math; but it is,
hands down, the best book currently available to teach such critters
about complexity, and even more seasoned, not to say jaded, researchers
will find it useful as a reference."
Hope this helps,
G?nther
Owen Densmore wrote:
> Frankly, I'm disappointed.
>
> The FRIAM list has been through several very philosophical
> conversations over 3-4 weeks, all purporting to be "complex". Yet
> when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.
>
> Does this mean, for complexity, there's no There There?
>
> Surely there is some interesting formalism we can use for
> complexity. Robert Holmes suggested a great book to us a while back
> which I had forgotten in my initial email:
> David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
>
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/>
> Do we all talk about complexity yet have no basis for it?
>
> -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
>
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> On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at/for complexity books that are textbooks or
>> similarly technical/mathematical. The recent Newman, Barabasi &
>> Watts collection The Structure and Dynamics of Networks is pretty
>> good but I would like something broader, covering the "Complex
>> Systems" world.
>>
>> Bar Yam's original book:
>>
http://tinyurl.com/mmxwp>> or
>>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813341213/sr=1-1/qid=1153334623/>> ref=sr_1_1/104-7070581-5619133?ie=UTF8
>> is the best I know of. Anyone know of another?
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>> Owen Densmore
>>
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