Sync : The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)

from iluetkeb

Very nice coverage of the phenomenon of synchronicity with lots of approachable examples. I particularly liked the introduction (from fireflies to the Lorenz equation), the part about human sleep-cycles and his discussion of small-world networks (which I knew a bit about but not from this perspec...

from name99

Substantially superior to your average pop science book. I read this to try to get some insight into the modern-day hype surrounding sync and networks. While the field is still fragmented in my mind, the book did a reasonable job of conveying the kinds of problems being looked at and the type of ...

from Steve55

This is a fantastic book packed with insights and wonderful ideas. Its subject is the power of synchronisation, or as the book's subtitle puts it, 'the emergence of spontaneous order'. Our approaches to managing pretty much anything, including organisations is based on increasingly complex struct...

from waldhaus1

I am fascinated by the topics of Chaos, and complexity. Sync dovetails nicely into both of those. This book is made richer and more interesting by the details the author uses to clarify concepts, and anecdotes about his personal involvement as well as comments about the personalities of the major...

from bezoar44

This book didn't work for me. The subject is interesting: how components of animate and inanimate systems reach sync as a mathematical consequence of their individual behaviors. But the book is more a professional memoir of the problems Strogatz has worked on than a systematic survey of the topic...