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  • Complexity

  • The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
  • Auteur(s): M. Mitchel Waldrop
  • Narrateur(s): Mikael Naramore
  • Durée: 17 h et 8 min
  • 3,7 out of 5 stars (7 évaluations)

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Complexity

Auteur(s): M. Mitchel Waldrop
Narrateur(s): Mikael Naramore
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“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post).

In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell--and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.

This book is their story--the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the 21st century.

“Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner...[Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” (The New York Times Book Review)

“Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” (Medium)

“[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” (Publishers Weekly)

Cover design by Mauricio Díaz

©1995 M. Mitchell Waldrop (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

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Doesn't explain complexity theory

Lovely story, but a misleading title and synopsis. The writer delves into the life and story of a prominent scientist and economist associated with the field, but fails to describe concepts in any great detail.

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  • Dennis E. Alwine
  • 2020-12-26

You won't learn anything you didn't know

I purchased this title hoping to learn something about Complexity theory, particularly how it works. Instead, I got a 'just-so' story filled with anecdotes, gossip, and more hand-waving than one can, well, hand-wave at. As to Complexity itself, it's just a matter of, "We old hacks constructed a model and tweaked it, and the model verified we were right all along. The universe works by Complexity theory. The End." After 13 hours of this, I just gave up. If you are a fan and want to be entertained, the narrator does a good job and it's a decently constructed story. You just won't learn anything about the subject from this title you didn't already know, whether a little or a lot. If you want to learn about Complexity theory, I'd suggest looking somewhere else.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2020-03-20

Amazing

As someone with degrees in math physics and computer science and an ex research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute I absolutely loved this book! The story, the way it was told everything about it was perfect! You never get to really hear a story about someone taking a long time to finish their PhD and still being an amazing scientist or the struggles for grants or how humane these people we idolize are! They are brilliant but books such as this one bring their genius closer to earth. This book inspired me in so many ways. What a joy!

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  • JH
  • 2020-12-15

The Dull Lives of People with Interesting Ideas

My impression is that the author wishes terribly that he were James Gleick, but entirely fails to strike the engaging balance of dramatic narrative and conceptual exploration that Gleick usually achieves. This book is not about complexity, it is about the people who developed the field. Perhaps you're looking for a sometimes charming, but mostly sleepy account of the lives of the many academics who have contributed to this rather interesting field. If so, please disregard my review. If you are looking for material that engages with complexity itself, look elsewhere.

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  • 11104
  • 2021-10-31

Not about the science of complexity

I gave up on this after about 4 hours. The book is not about the emerging science of complexity but rather the people who developed the field and the history of their efforts. It is, in a sense, personality journalism, which was not of interest to me.

The narrator was not to my taste. His diction and clarity of speech were excellent but I thought his style was somewhat over the top with a gee whiz feel to it. I'm sure others will react differently.

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  • Joe Kay
  • 2021-02-07

One of the worst books in a while

Not sure what I might be missing, but going through nearly half of the book was painful and totally uninformative.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2020-12-02

Wonderful.

One of the most enjoyable science books i've read lately. I would recommend it to anyone.

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  • Chris
  • 2020-08-22

History of complexity

A great story of the start of the field of complexity. Gives a lot of other names and books to follow up on. Puts the AI of todat into perspective and let's you see where it comes from.

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  • Curtis Fowler
  • 2022-02-16

Very light on information

It's a narrative. I was hoping for more information on the science of complexity, but after four hours I've given up hope. It's just a series of biographical stories.

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  • Max Goff
  • 2021-12-20

Great history (needs an update)

Very captivating history of complexity theory, but it stops at the year ~1990. It could use an epilogue to recap the last 30 years.

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  • Casey
  • 2021-10-24

Very good

If you are interested in the story, it's very well told. Well written and well narrated.

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