Emily Brooks

Graduate student
City University of New York

Emily Brooks is a writer, consultant and graduate student in disability studies at the CUNY School of Professional Studies in New York City.

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David Krakauer reflects on the foundations and future of complexity science

In his book “The Complex World,” Krakauer explores how complexity science developed, from its early roots to the four pillars that now define it—entropy, evolution, dynamics and computation.

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By Jill Adams
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