[FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 51, Issue 22

[Nicholas Thompson]

Owen, 

Have you ever seen the movie BLOWUP whose main point is that sometimes more
precision leads to greater confusion. 

Nick 


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>    1. Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond ... - Google Book Search
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> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond ... - Google Book
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> I've been surprised in the increased number of textbook level  
> complexity books recently, going beyond the popular books into fairly  
> serious formal systems.
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> This one looks like an interesting example of such a book:
>    http://books.google.com/books?id=7lcINfgupggC
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> Two questions:
> - Has anyone read or looked at this one yet?
> - Have you seen any interesting recent textbooks on complexity?   
> Here's an example I'm familiar with and like:
> Modeling Complex Systems By Nino Boccara
>    http://books.google.com/books?id=dUxnlP7KYQ4C
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> I'd be interested in books of this level others of us have found.
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> One interest in all this I have is that we often go on about "what is  
> complexity" and similar themes, and I have a hunch that the new crop  
> of textbooks may just have enough formalism to let us be more  
> precise.  I hope!
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>     -- Owen
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