Understanding complexity
- Title
- Understanding complexity / Scott E. Page.
- Published by
- Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, ©2009.
- Author
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Status | Vol/dateguidebook | FormatMoving image | AccessUse in library | Call numberHM701 .U53 2009 guidebook | Item locationOff-site |
Status | Vol/datedisc1-2 in 1 album | FormatMoving image | AccessUse in library | Call numberHM701 .U53 2009 disc1-2 in 1 album | Item locationOff-site |
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Professor Scott E. Page from University of Michigan introduces you to complexity science. You learn how this vibrant and still evolving discipline helps you understand the nature and behavior of systems formed of financial markets, corporations, native cultures, governments, and more.
- Series statement
- Great courses: business & economics
- Uniform title
- Great courses (DVD). Business & economics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Lecture
- lectures.
- Lectures.
- Educational films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Films éducatifs.
- Conférences.
- Films autres que de fiction.
- Contents
- Disc 1: lecture 1. Complexity--what is it? Why does it matter? ; lecture 2. Simple, rugged, and dancing landscapes ; lecture 3. The interesting in-between ; lecture 4. Why different is more ; lecture 5. Explore exploit--the fundamental trade-off ; lecture 6. Emergence I--why more is different -- disc 2: lecture 7. Emergence II--network structure and function ; lecture 8. Agent-based modeling--the new tool ; lecture 9. Feedbacks--beehives, QWERTY, the big sort ; lecture 10. The sand pile--self-organized criticality ; lecture 11. Complexity versus uncertainty ; lecture 12. Harnessing complexity.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Course no. 5181; 12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture.
- Originally produced in 2008.
- Credits (note)
- Editors, Dan Shine, Tony Hidenrick ; producer, Tony Hidenrick ; academic content supervisor, Marcy MacDonald.
- System details (note)
- DVD.