Patterns in the Sand
Computers, Complexity and Life
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1998
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86448-617-9 (ISBN)
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86448-617-9 (ISBN)
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In the FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE series, an introduction to understanding biological systems through the use of complexity and chaos theories. It discusses how these theories can assist computers to generate recognisable patterns of natural phenomena and uses examples from everyday life to demonstrate this.
Until recently, science has made progress by breaking large systems down into smaller and simpler parts, studying and explaining how these parts operate and then putting them back together again. Now, there is a new science -- complexity -- that asks how the world is put together. For example, knowing how a single neuron works does not explain how the brain works because of all the interactions of millions of individual neurons. Patterns in the Sand discusses this new scientific paradigm that treats life as a natural computation, and shows how this approach translates into ways of dealing with complexity in real life. It shows, for example, how key ideas, such as chaos, criticality and emergent phenomena, help us to understand how ants build their nests, how the brain works and why accidents happen. The titles in the series Frontiers of Science describe current research and developments in selected topics. The series is edited by Professor Paul Davies.
Until recently, science has made progress by breaking large systems down into smaller and simpler parts, studying and explaining how these parts operate and then putting them back together again. Now, there is a new science -- complexity -- that asks how the world is put together. For example, knowing how a single neuron works does not explain how the brain works because of all the interactions of millions of individual neurons. Patterns in the Sand discusses this new scientific paradigm that treats life as a natural computation, and shows how this approach translates into ways of dealing with complexity in real life. It shows, for example, how key ideas, such as chaos, criticality and emergent phenomena, help us to understand how ants build their nests, how the brain works and why accidents happen. The titles in the series Frontiers of Science describe current research and developments in selected topics. The series is edited by Professor Paul Davies.
TERRY BOSSOMAIER and DAVID GREEN are leading international researchers, who have made important contributions to the science of complexity and have both published several technical books in the area. Professor Bossomaier's research focuses on neural computation and Professor Green's on environmental information.
Series editor's forewordList of FiguresGlossaryPreface1. Coping with complexity2. Computation3. Military and democratic routes to complexity4. The imbalance of Nature5. The ABC of Nature6. On the importance of being well-connected7. Patterns in the sand8. Implications for computers9. The Internet: superhighway or goat track?10. Complexity and lifeNotesBibliographyIndex
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.1998 |
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Verlagsort | Sydney |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 130 x 195 mm |
Themenwelt | Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-86448-617-1 / 1864486171 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-86448-617-9 / 9781864486179 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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