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In Our Time: Complexity

Complexity

19/12/2013

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Complexity

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of complex systems, and its importance to understanding the world around us.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss complexity and how it can help us understand the world around us. When living beings come together and act in a group, they do so in complicated and unpredictable ways: societies often behave very differently from the individuals within them. Complexity was a phenomenon little understood a generation ago, but research into complex systems now has important applications in many different fields, from biology to political science. Today it is being used to explain how birds flock, to predict traffic flow in cities and to study the spread of diseases.

With:

Ian Stewart
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick

Jeff Johnson
Professor of Complexity Science and Design at the Open University

Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Director of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics.

Producer: Thomas Morris.

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