Emerging Syntheses in Science

Proceedings from the Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute

Santa Fe, October 1984. Many of the most accomplished creative minds in science-including four Nobel laureates-gather to create an institution unlike any other: where unconventional thinking flourishes and disciplinary boundaries fall away. From this meeting emerged some of the most generative research programs of the last three decades, including the physics of living systems, the mathematics of society, quantitative archaeology, the nature of mind, fundamentals of complex systems theory-and th... (Læs mere)