The Book Prize Index

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

This book provides an intimate, highly readable tour of the sciences of complexity, which seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. The author, a leading complex systems scientist, describes the history of ideas, current research, and future prospects in this vital scientific effort.

ScienceScience · high confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceGoogle Books: Science -> ScienceAward Category: Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards: Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science -> ScienceScience & DiscoveryIntellectual History & Ideas

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards: Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science2010WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    61 / 100 academic

    Academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 45%.