What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolve
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Table of contents :
Content: Two's company, three is complexity --
Disorder rules, OK? --
Chaos and all that jazz --
Mob mentality --
Getting connected --
What can complexity science do for me? Forecasting financial markets --
Tackling traffic networks and climbing the corporate ladder --
Looking for Mr./Mrs. Right --
Coping with conflict : next-generation wars and global terrorism --
Catching a cold, avoiding super-flu, and curing cancer --
The mother of all complexities : our nanoscale quantum world --
To infinity and beyond.