Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

The background reading provided here tends to be more technical, and may be more suited towards participants with particular interests. For more general introductions to these topics, please look at Melanie Mitchell's Introduction to Complexity course.

• Measures of complexity
  Seth Lloyd
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/measures_of_complexity.pdf
• Computational complexity
  Cris Moore
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/compuational_complexity.pdf
• Agent-based models
  Joshua Epstein
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/agent_based_models.pdf
• Deterministic chaos
  D. Ruelle
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/chaos.pdf
• Information theory
  Simon DeDeo
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/information_theory.pdf
• Evolution, adaptation, & game theory
  Martin Nowak, Karl Sigmund
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/evolution_adaptation_game_theory.pdf
• Networks
  Anna Goldenberg, Alice Zheng, Stephen Fienberg, Edoardo Airoldi
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/networks.pdf
• Power laws & scaling
  M. E. J. Newman
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/power_laws.pdf
• Modeling intelligence
  Valentino Braitenberg
  https://sfieducation.s3.amazonaws.com/2022+CSSS+Background+Reading/modeling_intelligence.pdf