FURTHER READINGS and BACKGROUND

There are many books on complexity aimed at the general reader. Listed are some of those that we found interesting and/or useful. None of them are compulsory for this course, but they are a good place to look for further information on specific topics or background information.

• Watts, D.J, and Strogatz, S.H. (1998).Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks, Nature 393, p. 440-442 (local copy).
• Kauffman, S.A. (1991) Antichaos and Adaptation, Scientific American, August 1991, p. 78-84 (local copy).
• Watts, D. (1999) Small Worlds
• Mark Buchanan (2002) Uncovering Nature's hidden networks
• Steven H. Strogatz (1994) Non linear Dynamics and Chaos
• Steven H. Strogatz (2003) Synch: The emerging science of spontaneous order
• Ricard Sole and Brian Goodwin Signs of Life: How complexity pervades biology
• Stuart Kauffman At home in the Universe
• Gary William Flake The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of  http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/home.html
• Barabasi Linked
• Richard Levin Complexity
• Melanie Mitchell Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
• Stephen Wolfram A new kind of science
• Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart The Collapse of Chaos
• Yaneer Bar Yam (online text and in library) http://necsi.org/publications/dcs/ Recommended by some as the best complex systems text
• David Green Patterns in the Sand
• James Gleik Chaos