Frankly, I'm disappointed. The FRIAM list has been through several very philosophical conversations over 3-4 weeks, all purporting to be "complex". Yet when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.
Does this mean, for complexity, there's no There There? Surely there is some interesting formalism we can use for complexity. Robert Holmes suggested a great book to us a while back which I had forgotten in my initial email: David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/ Do we all talk about complexity yet have no basis for it? -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I've been looking at/for complexity books that are textbooks or > similarly technical/mathematical. The recent Newman, Barabasi & > Watts collection The Structure and Dynamics of Networks is pretty > good but I would like something broader, covering the "Complex > Systems" world. > > Bar Yam's original book: > http://tinyurl.com/mmxwp > or > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813341213/sr=1-1/qid=1153334623/ > ref=sr_1_1/104-7070581-5619133?ie=UTF8 > is the best I know of. Anyone know of another? > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore > http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
