Complexity Theory

Complexity theory may refer to:

  • The study of a complex system or complex systems
  • Complexity theory and organizations, the application of complexity theory to strategy
  • Complexity economics, the application of complexity theory to economics
  • Chaos theory, the study of the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions
  • Computational complexity theory, a field in theoretical computer science and mathematics
  • Algorithmic information theory

Famous quotes containing the words complexity and/or theory:

    “The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in—telephonic, technological and relational—to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “Thus the theory of description matters most.
    It is the theory of the word for those
    For whom the word is the making of the world,
    The buzzing world and lisping firmament.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)