http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Dynamics-of-Complex-Systems-by-Yaneer-Bar-Yam-tp522166p522194.html
Wonderful suggestion .. and I had also forgotten Cosma's wonderful
site. What a great old soul, although he'd hate to hear that.
> 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/eb78d>
>
> Site 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
>>>
http://backspaces.net -
http://redfish.com -
http://friam.org>>>
>>>
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