Deep Simplicity
Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by John Gribbin
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and Nonfiction.
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only th...
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Charlie Munger
“It's pretty hard to understand everything, but if you can't understand it, you can always give it to a more intelligent friend.”
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