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Informationen zum Autor John L. Casti is an author, mathematician, and entrepreneur. Klappentext This Set contains: Reality Rules, Picturing the World in Mathematics, Volume 1, The Fundamentals by John Casti; Reality Rules, Picturing the World in Mathematics, Volume 2, The Frontier by John Casti Zusammenfassung Exploring the syntax and semantics of the language in which mathematical modelling rules are written! this text moves from the basics of modelling to the upper reaches of scientific and philosophical speculation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Aus dem Inhalt: VOLUME 1: THE WAYS OF MODELMAKING: Natural Systems and Formal Mathematical Representations; CATASTROPHES, DYNAMICS AND LIFE: The Singularities of Ecological and Natural Resource Systems; PATTERN AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIVING FORMS: Cellular Automata and Discrete Dynamics; ORDER IN CHAOS: Variety and Pattern in the Flow of Fluids, Populations and Money. VOLUME 2: STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL: Competition, games and the Theory of Evolution; THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE: A System-Theoretic View of Brains, Minds and Mechanisms; TAMING NATURE AND MAN: Control Anticipation and Adaptation in Social and Biological Processes; THE GEOMETRY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS: Connective Structure in Art, Literature and Games of Chance; THE MYSTIQUE OF MECHANISMS: Computation, Complexity and the Limits to Reason; HOW DO WE KNOW?: Myths, Models and Paradigms in the Creation of Beliefs.
