Materials
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Fractals
https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/93-fractals-and-scaling-winter-2019
https://download.ted.com/talks/BenoitMandelbrot_2010-480p.mp4?apikey=acme-roadrunner
Scaling
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, Geoffrey West
Theory of complex systems, Thurner et al, Chapter 3
https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/93-fractals-and-scaling-winter-2019
Reaction-diffusion models
https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frstb.1952.0012
Philip Ball: The Self-Made Tapestry
Evolutionary dynamics (punctuated equilibrium etc)
Theory of complex systems, Thurner et al, Chapter 5
Self-organized criticality (Sandpile Model, Bak, etc)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04991
Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences, Sornette
Statistical mechanics approaches to complex systems
Theory of complex systems, Thurner et al, Chapter 6
Agent-based models
https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/96-introduction-to-agent-based-modeling-summer-2019
Social dynamics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSLVUGsQjwk
* Exercise idea: Simulate the Schelling model
Econophysics
An Introduction to Econophysics, Mantegna & Stanley
Cellular automata
https://towardsdatascience.com/algorithmic-beauty-an-introduction-to-cellular-automata-f53179b3cf8f
Cities as complex systems
The Structure and Dynamics of Cities; Urban Data Analysis and Theoretical Modeling, Marc Barthelemy
Phase transitions and critical phenomena
Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences, Sornette