Complex systems & failure
Why big systems behave in ways none of their parts intend — and how they break.
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More Is Different
Anderson's argument that new laws emerge at every scale. The founding text of complexity.
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How Complex Systems Fail
Eighteen short truths every engineer rediscovers the hard way.
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Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf's Law
The signature statistics of complex systems, from city sizes to word counts.
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Science examining its own failure modes, with arithmetic.