Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers

Wolfram, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0201626640 / ISBN 13: 9780201626643

Verlag: Westview, Champaign, IL, 1994

Beschreibung

NEAR FINE tight, clean, unread soft cover. Only the very faintest evidence of shelf wear, including very faint, minor curling at corners of still glossy covers. (Please note this oversized item cannot be expedited or shipped outside the U.S.).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 019379

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers
• Verlag: Westview, Champaign, IL
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0201626640
• ISBN-13: 9780201626643
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Are mathematical equations the best way to model nature? For many years it had been assumed that they were. But in the early 1980s, Stephen Wolfram made the radical proposal that one should instead build models that are based directly on simple computer programs. Wolfram made a detailed study of a class of such models known as cellular automata, and discovered a remarkable fact: that even when the underlying rules are very simple, the behavior they produce can be highly complex, and can mimic many features of what we see in nature. And based on this result, Wolfram began a program of research to develop what he called ?A Science of Complexity.?The results of Wolfram's work found many applications, from the so-called Wolfram Classification central to fields such as artificial life, to new ideas about cryptography and fluid dynamics. This book is a collection of Wolfram's original papers on cellular automata and complexity. Some of these papers are widely known in the scientific community; others have never been published before. Together, the papers provide a highly readable account of what has become a major new field of science, with important implications for physics, biology, economics, computer science and many other areas.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Wolfram