Two's Company, Three's Complexity

Neil Johnson’s new book ‘Two’s Company, Three’s Complexity’ has recently been published by Oneworld Publications.

What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained by complexity, an unsolved scientific puzzle which is considered by many to be the ‘Science of Sciences’. In Two’s Company, Three is Complexity, Neil Johnson uses real-life examples as he leads us on a fascinating and entertaining romp through cutting-edge topics like chaos, game theory, economics, and even jazz and quantum physics. From pubs to plants, Johnson shows the surprising ways in which order eventually emerges from the interaction of all things, and ultimately proves that complexity lies at the heart of the Universe itself.

Neil Johnson is Professor of Physics at Oxford University, currently working at the University of Miami in Florida. He is a member of CABDyN’s Scientific Management Board and author of Financial Market Complexity, Oxford University Press (2003). He was previously the Royal Institution's Christmas lecturer, writing and presenting five one hour lectures on BBC Television.

‘Listen again’ to Neil Johnson speaking about Complexity Theory on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Thinking Allowed’ which was recorded on 15 August 2007.