As a followup to an on-line discussion, the face-to-face FRIAM group last week spoke some more about kinds of complexity. I mentioned a paper of Seth Lloyd's, which is called "Measures of Complexity: A non-exhaustive list." I have a hard copy, undated, and retrieved from Joe Traub's files,. I
On 8/9/06, Pamela McCorduck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip...In fact, asking for the true mathematical definition of complexity today is like asking for the true mathematical definition of electricity in 1800: to understand electricity, it turned out to be much more productive to define several