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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
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REVISITING RAMANUJAN
Scott H. Young • Ultralearning
The spot is a self-organizing system, created and regulated by the same nonlinear twists that create the unpredictable turmoil around it. It is stable chaos.
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
As explained in the previous chapter, a crinkly enough line that is space filling can scale as if it’s an area.
Geoffrey West • Scale
Waldrop, Mitchell M. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
So what is the potential that out-of-equilibrium systems such as our bathtub whirlpool minimize?
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
emergence, a higher-level pattern arising out of parallel complex interactions between local agents.
Steven Johnson • Emergence
While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.