I just finished reading Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell. The book is meant to be an introduction to complexity theory for the general reader.

The book works as a lucid review of many interesting topics in science and mathematics. I’d read Mitchell’s book on genetic algorithms, and she’s a gifted writer. Here she explores (among other things) dynamical systems, chaos, information theory, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, analogical reasoning, and network theory. She does a great job explaining difficult concepts in a clear manner.

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