Jochen Fromm wrote: > > Much more interesting than the bad > complexity book from Remo Badii and Antonio Politi that > gets dusty somehwere on my bookshelf. Even if it is > from Cambridge University Press, the Badii and Politi > book is one of those disappointing books that you put down > again soon everytime you pick it up, because you neve > get any interesting inspiration from the mathematical > quagmire. Quite different from those classic, timeless > books where you discover everytime something new.
Sure, it's no page turner - but it's a formal treatment, and sometimes you just have to work through those tomes. Formal books will never make it to your bedside (except as a surrogate for sleeping pills ;-) The reward comes afterwards, maybe after a couple of weeks, when the stuff "conglomerates" in your brain and leads to new insights. Günther ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
