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What Is a Complex System? James Ladyman

What Is a Complex System? By James Ladyman

What Is a Complex System? by James Ladyman

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What Is a Complex System? by James Ladyman

A clear, concise introduction to the quickly growing field of complexity science that explains its conceptual and mathematical foundations

What is a complex system? Although complexity science is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, the economic markets, the human brain, and the climate, there is no agreement about its foundations. In this introduction for students, academics, and general readers, philosopher of science James Ladyman and physicist Karoline Wiesner develop an account of complexity that brings the different concepts and mathematical measures applied to complex systems into a single framework. They introduce the different features of complex systems, discuss different conceptions of complexity, and develop their own account. They explain why complexity science is so important in todays world.

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A clear analysis of systems ranging from radiation to human brainsNature

Many people might not bother to define complexity, thinking that we know it when we see it. Scientists and philosophers have no such luxury, and for them this book will be invaluable. Ladyman and Wiesner have provided a compact but comprehensive overview of the different ways that systems can be complex, ultimately arguing that complexity comes in distinct forms, but that their commonalities are nevertheless quite real.Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

This is an outstanding, original, and much-needed book. Ladyman and Wiesner give an accessible, engaging, and precise overview of complexity science from a panoptic perspective, spanning many different kinds of examples from a variety of disciplinesJames Owen Weatherall, coauthor of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

Written in a lively and readable style, What Is a Complex System? provides a clear and coherent synthesis of the myriad and sometimes contradictory descriptions and definitions of complex systems.Colm Connaughton, Director of the Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick


This is highly thoughtful incisive essay on the meaning and use of the concept of complex systems. I particularly like the attempt to formulate syntheses across fields, across features and across mechanisms.Didier Sornette, author ofWhy Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

This book is a superb introduction to complex systems. Ladyman and Wiesner skillfully guide the reader from examples of complex systems all-around us, to ten common features of such systems and how to mathematically measure them, to a discussion of complexity as a scientific field by itself. Anyone interested in complex systems should read this book before any other.Tina Eliassi-Rad, Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University

About James Ladyman

James Ladyman is professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol and works mainly in the philosophy of science. Karoline Wiesner is associate professor of mathematics at the University of Bristol and uses information theory to understand complex systems.

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NGR9780300251104
9780300251104
0300251106
What Is a Complex System? by James Ladyman
James Ladyman
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Paperback
Yale University Press
2020-09-08
184
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