Pattern Formation in the Physical and Biological Sciences

"This volume contains the best lectures from the Summer School Lectures volumes dealing with the theme of pattern formation. Topics include self-organization by simulated evolution, nonlinear dynamics"

List of contents

About the Santa Fe Institute , Preface , Pattern and Process , Self-Organization by Simulated Evolution , Limiting Assumptions in Models of Somatotopic Map Organization , Functional Self-Organization in Complex Systems , Nonlinear Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Physics and Biology , Synchronous Oscillations in Neuronal Systems: Mechanisms and Functions , The Emergence of Computational Ecologies , Preimages and Forecasting for Cellular Automata , Probablistic Cellular Automata: Some Statistical Mechanical Considerations , Nonlocal Cellular Automata , The Dynamics and Analysis of Patterns , Pattern Formation in Biological Systems , Impulse Activity and the Patterning of Connections During CNS Development , Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems: Roles of Open Reactors , The Future of Time Series: Learning and Understanding

About the author

H Frederick Nijhout

Summary

This volume contains the best lectures from the Summer School Lectures volumes dealing with the theme of pattern formation. Topics include self-organization by simulated evolution, nonlinear dynamics of pattern formation in physics and biology, and the emergence of computational ecologies.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Nadel, H Frederick Nijhout, H. F. Nijhout, H. Frederick Nijhout, H. Frederick Nadel Nijhout, H. Nijout, Daniel Stein, Daniel L Stein, Daniel L. Stein
• Assisted by: Lynn Nadel (Editor), H. F. Nijhout (Editor), H. Frederick Nijhout (Editor), Daniel Stein (Editor), Daniel L. Stein (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.1997
• EAN: 9780201156911
• ISBN: 978-0-201-15691-1
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Santa Fe Institute; Santa Fe Institute Studies in
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries