M Mitchell Waldrop

Waldrop, M. (1994) Complexity. Pgs 9-11, London: Penguin.

The writer is trying to explain complexity which is a subject that no one understands. He is trying to solve it through story from different races and countries. There is a lack of explanation or the subject and a lack of understanding of what it actually is. He explains it.
“This is a book about complexity-a subject that’s still so new and so wide-ranging that nobody knows quite how to define it, or even where its boundaries lie.” (Page 9, first paragraph)
“At first glance, about the only thing that these questions have in common is that they all have the same answer: “Nobody knows.” Some of them don’t even seem like scientific issues at all. And yet, when you look a little closer, they actually have quite a lot in common. For example, every one of these questions refers to a system that is complex, in the sense that a great many independent agents are interacting with each other in a great many ways.” (Page 11, first paragraph)
This source builds on the understanding of a word that describes difficulty. It’s very difficult to write about something that is abstract and has no physical properties.
I plan on using this to describe the difficulty of gathering all of the information and it not being easy. The task they are trying to accomplish is very difficult and multi dimensional in the approaches and angles that it must be attacked from.
This is connected through the differences in subject matter. This subject relates to all of the other ones because that all of the other subjects have varying degrees of complexity and refers to each and every one of them.