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Complexity : a guided tour

Mitchell, Melanie2011
Book
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.
Main title:
Complexity : a guided tour / Melanie Mitchell.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Collation:
xvi, 349 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. [304]-336) and index.
ISBN:
9780199798100
Dewey class:
501
Language:
English
BRN:
82462
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the Dock-Science and NatureSCIENCE 501 MITCOn loan - Due: 02 Jul 2026
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