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What Is a Complex System?

By James Ladyman, Karoline Wiesner
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By James Ladyman, Karoline Wiesner
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What is a complex system? Although "complexity science" is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, 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...

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