Complexity theory may refer to:
- The study of a complex system or complex systems
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- Complexity theory and organizations, the application of complexity theory to strategy
- Complexity economics, the application of complexity theory to economics
- Chaos theory, the study of the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions
- Computational complexity theory, a field in theoretical computer science and mathematics
- Algorithmic information theory
Famous quotes containing the words complexity and/or theory:
“The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in—telephonic, technological and relational—to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of gov’t as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by gov’t. Somewhere in between and in gradations is the group that has the sense that gov’t exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)