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Complexity Map

This document provides a map of intellectual lineages in the complexity sciences, listing influential thinkers from 1940 to the present. It traces the development of fields like nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, systems theory, network science, and computational modeling. Key contributors mentioned include Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Benoit Mandelbrot, Stephen Wolfram, and many others who have advanced the interdisciplinary study of complex systems.

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Complexity Map

This document provides a map of intellectual lineages in the complexity sciences, listing influential thinkers from 1940 to the present. It traces the development of fields like nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, systems theory, network science, and computational modeling. Key contributors mentioned include Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Benoit Mandelbrot, Stephen Wolfram, and many others who have advanced the interdisciplinary study of complex systems.

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Art & Science Factory

LLC

1940-1950s
Issac Newton (The Calculus)

1960's

1970's
James Yorke (Founder)

1980's
Mitchell Feigenbaum (Chaos Constant) Edward Lorenz (Lorenz Attractor/ Butterfly Effect)

1990's

2000's

2015

Benoit Mandelbrot (Founder)

Map of the Complexity Sciences


James Crutchfield (Computational Mechanics/ Nonlinear Dynamics) Stephanie Forrest (Computational Immunology Biological Modeling)

by Brian Castellani

Henri Poincar (Algebraic Topology)

Tien Yien Li (Founder)

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (Systems Theory Founder & Systems Biology)


James Grier Miller (living systems theory)

Donella Meadows (globalization)

Fritjof Capra (web of life)

Kurt Richardson (Complexity Thinking)

Doyne Farmer (dynamical systems) Stafford Beer (management)

Robert May (Population Dynamics)


Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Computational Biology/ Multi-level Modeling)

Gregory Bateson (ecology of mind)

James Lovelock & Lynn Margulis (lGaia Hypothesis)

Peter Checkland (management/ soft systems modeling)

Per Ltstedt (Computation/ multi-scale modeling)

Anatol Rapoport (mathematical psychology)

Howard Thomas Odum (Ecological Systems Theory)

Eshel Ben-Jacob (Self-Organization/ Bacterial sociality)

Yamir Moreno (Physics of Complex Systems)

Per Bak (Self-Organized Critically)

Stuart Kauffmann

Margaret Mead (anthropology)

Kenneth Boulding (economics)

Francisco Varela & Humberto Maturana (Cognitive Science)

(Biology/Evolution Autonomous Agents)

Yaneer Bar-Yam Eric Bonabeau (distributed/swarm (Dynamics of Complex Systems) intelligence) Nicholas Christakis Immanuel Wallerstein Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Health Networks) (World Systems Theory) (Swarm Intelligence, nonlinear dynamics, biological MarK Granovetter Barry Wellman computation) (Strength of Weak Ties) (Internet, INSNN)
Steve Strogatz (Small World)

Other Intellectual Lineages

Manuel Castells (Global Network Society)

Nigel Thrift (Complexity, Place, Time)

Erich Jantsch (Self-Organizing Universe)

Geoffrey West (Scaling Laws)

Jean Carlson/ John Doyle (Complexity & Robustness) Samuel Bowles (Dynamics of Human Systems)

John Urry (globalization/ Social mobilities)


David O'Sullivan (GIS, geography & Complexity)

Herman Haken
(Self-Organization and Synergetics)
John Smith/Chris Jenks (Qualitative Compelxity)

Norbert Wiener (Cybernetics Mathematics)

Warren Weaver (Organized & Disorganized Complexity; Machine Translation)

Ilya Prigogine

Paul Cilliers (Philosophy of Complexity)

Michael Batty (Cities and Complexity)

(Dissipative Structure, time, matter)

George Klir (Systems Science) Niklas Luhmann

Deborah Hammond (history of systems thinking)

(Sociology)

Edgar Morin (Philosophy of Complexity)

Bruno Latour (Small Worlds) (Actor Network Theory) John Miller (computational economics)

Duncan Watts

Albert-Lazlo Barabasi (Scale-free networks)


John Taylor (e-science)

Katy Brner (Visual Complexity/ Networks/ Data Science) MIT Media Lab (technology, multimedia, design)

Scott Page (Political Science)


Lasse Gerrits (Complexity and Public Policy)

Manuel Lima (Visual Complexity)

Heinz von Foerster (2nd order cybernetics)

W. Ross Ashby (Cybernetics of Mind)


Claude Shannon (Information theory)

Jay Forrester (system dynamics)


Murray Gell-Mann (Effective Complexity)

Friedrich Hayek (Economy as Complex System)


Seth Lloyd and Heinz Pagels (Thermodynamic Depth) Christopher Langton (Founder)
Francisco Parra-Luna (Founder)

Andrei Kolmogorov

John von Neumann (mathematics)

(Complexity & Information)

Stephen Wolfram (Complexity)

Nigel Gilbert (computational social systems)

Joshua Epstein/ Robert Axtell (Artificial Societies)

David Byrne (Complex Realism/ Case-based Modeling)


Brian Castellani/ Rajeev Rajaram (SACS Toolkit)

Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenbergas (Data Visualization/ Social Data/Visual Arts)

Walter Pitts (Founder)

Frank Rosenblatt (Connectionism) John Conway (Game of Life) Bart Kosko (Fuzzy Logic)

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) Katia Sycara (Robotics, Muti-agent Systems) Jeanette Wing (computational thinking)

Warren McCulloch (Founder)

Teuvo Kohnen (Self-Organizing Map)

John Holland

(Genetic Algorithms)
Lotfi Zadeh (Founder)

Thomas Schelling (micromotives/ Macrobehavior)

Robert Axelrod (Complexity of Cooperation)

Michael Wooldridge (Editor, AAMAS)

Douglas Hofstadter (Cognitive Science)

Melanie Mitchell (computation in complex systems)

Charles Ragin (Founder, QCA, Fuzzy Set Social Science)

Emma Uprichard (cluster analysis & complex systems)

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