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What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting - and ultimately solving - everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion. Complexity is considered by many to be the single most important scientific development since general relativity and promises to make sense of no less than the very heart of the Universe. Using it, scientists can find order emerging from seemingly random interactions of all kinds, from something as simple as flipping coins through to more challenging problems such as predicting shopping habits, the patterns in modern jazz, and the growth of cancer tumours.
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Neil Johnson is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and is currently working at the University of Miami in Florida. He is also co-director of the University of Oxford's research collaboration into Complexity.
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Format:Paperback
This is a good primer/intro to the field of complexity science. It won't teach you how to apply complexity science as such, but gets you thinking on the right lines. I particularly enjoyed the real life applications that were used throughout the book to help convey how complexity science can be applied to almost any area of life/human endeavour.
My only gripe with the book (and hence my only giving 4 stars), is not in the content of the book but the authors over use of the words 'in other words', which seem to appear in nearly every paragraph, probably a slight exaggeration but it does get a bit irritating after a while. He also uses 'in short' too much- these are easily fixed in a revised edition I suppose.
Overall, a good intro to the subject and provokes some interesting thoughts on life.
My only gripe with the book (and hence my only giving 4 stars), is not in the content of the book but the authors over use of the words 'in other words', which seem to appear in nearly every paragraph, probably a slight exaggeration but it does get a bit irritating after a while. He also uses 'in short' too much- these are easily fixed in a revised edition I suppose.
Overall, a good intro to the subject and provokes some interesting thoughts on life.
13 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great disappointment. I can't recall the last time I bought a book which was so bad as to be completely unreadable. I am reminded of some of the popular books on Chaos Theory. A solution for every problem. The Science of Sciences and so forth. Pure waffle from beginning to end. There is a science of complexity, emergent behaviour and allied subjects and if you, like me, want to find out about it, steer well clear of this book.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In complete contrast to the first review of this book on the Amazon.co.uk page, I think this book is a really excellent read. How refreshing to have things explained clearly, from the bottom up in a logical progressive manner -- and then have the rich reward of a wide range of application areas clearly mapped out. Unlike other books on complexity which seem to revolve around saying "traffic is like ants which is like...", this book explains the differences between disorder, chaos and complexity and also concepts such as fractals. All in a fun, matter-of-fact, bloke in a pub type way. Great job.
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