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Mitchell M. Waldrop 出版社: Simon & Schuster 副标题: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos 出版年: 1992-1-15 页数: 384 定价: USD 15.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780671872342
In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radica...
In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity. These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself. 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. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - and what such events have to do with the sudden collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s. They want to know why the economy can behave in unpredictable ways that economists can't explain - and how the random process of Darwinian natural selection managed to produce such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and the kidney. Above all, they want to know how the universe manages to bring forth complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. There are commonthreads in all of these queries, and these Santa Fe scientists seek to understand them. Complexity is their story: the messy, funny, human story of how science really happens. Here is the tale of Brian Arthur, the Belfast-born economist who stubbornly pushed his theories of economic ch
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0 有用 lenciel 2024-01-24 11:05:20 美国
常读常新，发人深省...
0 有用 dz902 2022-03-24 09:15:02
刚发现看错书了…只看了极其冗长的样章，拿某一节名字来说就是 whats the point？看了半天不知道作者主旨是啥。而且一直以第三人称采访体介绍似乎是收益递增的主导者的教授。说白了其实不是两句话就说清楚了吗？科技行业是收益递增，垄断的东西往往是随机。枉自开篇问这么多问题还以为要解惑呢。
0 有用 计划不变 2013-04-18 13:43:50
相遇总比相守来的奇幻，恋爱总比婚姻来的耐看。本书如果只停留在artificial life的struggling之前，即santa fe形成之时，会更加多彩。后面对Langton经历的细致描画，虽然是励志是奇迹，却开始偏离主线。接下来对institute经费紧张等行政状况记录，更加是柴米油盐酱醋茶。不能说不好，只是有些添足。 好吧，作为混沌与秩序之间，这样的复杂可能就是作者想达成的效果吧。
0 有用 泥豆尼痘昵 2016-05-03 06:02:57
此书的经典性不用赘述，我甚至进而认为人人都该读一下它。虽然在今时今日仍有很多人在日常生活中坚持简单粗暴的二分法，即便是在科研领域也不得不挥动奥卡姆剃刀阉割大量问题，复杂科学一定是未来的大方向，是大部分人重新认识世界和自己的必经之路。本书是带有传记性质的科普读物，通过数位主人公的科研经历叙述复杂科学从无到有的一段历史故事，每一个主人公都是牛人，但他们的最终成功却都不是一帆风顺，有时候几乎会令人叹息其... 此书的经典性不用赘述，我甚至进而认为人人都该读一下它。虽然在今时今日仍有很多人在日常生活中坚持简单粗暴的二分法，即便是在科研领域也不得不挥动奥卡姆剃刀阉割大量问题，复杂科学一定是未来的大方向，是大部分人重新认识世界和自己的必经之路。本书是带有传记性质的科普读物，通过数位主人公的科研经历叙述复杂科学从无到有的一段历史故事，每一个主人公都是牛人，但他们的最终成功却都不是一帆风顺，有时候几乎会令人叹息其辛苦执着的痛苦之深。在读故事的时候，一个个科学概念扑面而来，作者用文字解释，而没有罗列数学公式，想必是为入门级读者所考虑，而这并不会影响大家的理解，只不过需要从事复杂科学实践工作的人当然必须去参阅其它专业书。总之，这本书能帮助人改变自己过去浅薄的眼界，开启对于科学和社会生活中事物的高级认识，必五星。 (展开)
0 有用 目送飞鸿 2020-08-21 23:51:30
这本不能算科普作品吧，报告文学啦。前两章还写的不错，后面就差点，可能与其学科研究成果尚不成熟有关