 Alternate Realities: Mathematical Models of Nature and Man
ISBN: 978-0-471-61842-3
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493 pages
February 1989
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The Ways of Modelmaking: Natural Systems and Formal Mathematical Representations.
Pattern and the Emergence of Living Forms: Cellular Automata and Discrete Dynamics.
The Analytical Engine: A Newtonian View of Brains, Minds and Mechanisms.
Catastrophes and Life: The Singularities of Ecological and Natural Resource Systems.
Order in Chaos: Turbulence and Pattern in the Flow of Fluids, Populations and Money.
Strategies for Survival: Competition, Games and the Theory of Evolution.
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.
How Do We Know?: Myths, Models and Paradigms in the Creation of Beliefs.
Discussion Questions.
Problems and Exercises.
Notes and References.
Index.
Pattern and the Emergence of Living Forms: Cellular Automata and Discrete Dynamics.
The Analytical Engine: A Newtonian View of Brains, Minds and Mechanisms.
Catastrophes and Life: The Singularities of Ecological and Natural Resource Systems.
Order in Chaos: Turbulence and Pattern in the Flow of Fluids, Populations and Money.
Strategies for Survival: Competition, Games and the Theory of Evolution.
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.
How Do We Know?: Myths, Models and Paradigms in the Creation of Beliefs.
Discussion Questions.
Problems and Exercises.
Notes and References.
Index.
