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Book Review Luis R. Izquierdo* University of Burgos Complexity: A Guided Tour. Melanie Mitchell. (2009, New York: Oxford University Press.) $29.95, 368 pages. 1 Introduction In the present day, writing a book about complexity is a major challenge. To start with, there is no agreed-upon definition of complexity. Arguably, there is not even a shared understanding of the core ideas that underlie the description of most complex systems. Concepts such as âself-organization,â âadaptation,â âchaos,â and âemergenceâ are appealing and widely used, but they do not seem to have escaped the esoteric realm of ill-defined notions yet. The challenge of writing a book on complexity becomes twofold if, in addition, the book is meant to be popular science. How can one communicate and interrelate a myriad of complex ideas in a simple and attractive way, in fewer than 300 pages full of illustrations, using virtually no equations, and in a manner that can be easily understood by a broad audience? Finally, if, furthermore, you want to keep a healthy, skeptical viewpoint on the field and write the book in a scientifically rigorous way, the challenge becomes daunting. Given all this, I believe that there are very few people in
Artificial Life – MIT Press
Published: Jul 1, 2010
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