Modeling reality : how computers mirror life / Iwo Białynicki-Birula, Iwona Białynicka-Birula.

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Main Author: Białynicki-Birula, Iwo
Other Authors: Białynicka-Birula, Iwona
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175) and index. 
505 0 |a From building blocks to computers: models and modeling -- The game of life: a legendary cellular automaton -- Heads or tails: probability of an event -- Galton's board: probability and statistics -- Twenty questions: probability and information -- Snowflakes: the evolution of dynamical systems -- The Lorenz butterfly: deterministic chaos -- From Cantor to Mandelbrot: self-similarity and fractals -- Typing monkeys: statistical linguistics -- The bridges of Königsberg: graph theory -- Prisoner's dilemma: game theory -- Let the best man win: genetic algorithms -- Computers can learn: neural networks -- Unpredictable individuals: modeling society -- Universal computer: the Turing machine -- Hal, R2D2, and Number 5: artificial intelligence -- Epilogue. 
650 0 |a Reality. 
650 0 |a Life. 
650 0 |a Physics  |x Philosophy. 
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