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J Scott
Nov 14, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I read Dr. Mitchell's excellent Complexity, A Guided Tour last December (2010). Mitchell does a splendid job of explaining the sciences of complexity. She does a thorough job defining/describing the background and history of complexity in life and computer programs. Her treatment of the "New Science of Networks" was the most revealing and instructive for me.

Dr. Mitchell concludes this excellent volume with admission that complexity is in "early stages," and requires "an adventurous intellectual
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J Scott
Nov 14, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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I read Dr. Mitchell's excellent Complexity, A Guided Tour last December (2010). Mitchell does a splendid job of explaining the sciences of complexity. She does a thorough job defining/describing the background and history of complexity in life and computer programs. Her treatment of the "New Science of Networks" was the most revealing and instructive for me.

Dr. Mitchell concludes this excellent volume with admission that complexity is in "early stages," and requires "an adventurous intellectual
...more
Fred Leland
Nov 10, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A great I️introduction into complexity and the differences between structured linear problems compared with ill-structured non linear problems, and the ranges of complexity along this spectrum.
Rich
Jan 12, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition