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Title: The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone ISBN: 0-8092-5202-3 Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Leo Szilard, Maxwell's Demon an the Limits of Observation
Comment: I read most of this book (library copy) many years ago and one set of concepts had a great impact: The clear explanation of the deep epistemologiacal implications Leo Szilard's groundbreaking paper of 1929. I can't recall all the details but the conclusions were clear. It goes much deeper than Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Szilard's results would even apply in a "classical" universe.
I have yet to see this fully explicated anywhere else eg.in philosophy departments, or more "popular" texts, etc.
Read it and think!
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read
Comment: I've given many copies of this book to my students--the ones who have particular promise, the ones who ask questions about things. Like the question that Poundstone asks in the book: where did all this complex stuff come from. Of all the complexity literature--Arthur, Kaufman, et al--I've found this the most meaningful. And the use of the Game of Life to illustrate the emergence of the complex is beautifully done.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of
Comment: A wonderful journey through key concepts in information theory using Conway's "Life" program as a vehicle. This book is a celebration of what is possible when natural law is applied to a random system, and demonstrates the necessity of limits on systems. Highly recommended for anyone interested in entropy, extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, or cellular automata. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Title: Labyrinths of Reason : Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone ISBN: 0385242719 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS by Mitchell M. Waldrop ISBN: 0671872346 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone ISBN: 038541580X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Economy As an Evolving Complex System II: Proceedings (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol 27) by W. Brian Arthur, Steven N. Durlauf, David A. Lane, Sfi Economics Program ISBN: 0201328232 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $57.00 |
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Title: The End of Certainty by Ilya Prigogine ISBN: 0684837056 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 17 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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