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In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution is brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but Nobel Laureates in physics and economics, mathematicians, and computer scientists from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, dedicated to creating a new science of complexity. They challenge linear, reductionist thinking and seek to understand interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order. Their quest leads them to explore the origins of life, the unpredictable behavior of economies, and the emergence of complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. Their journey is a messy, funny, human story of how science really happens and the emergence of the sciences of the twenty-first century.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Science/Physics
Authors: M. Mitchell Waldrop
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