Artificial Life by Steven Levy
This book looks at artificial life science - A-Life, an important new area of scientific research involving the disciplines of microbiology, evolutionary theory, physics, chemistry and computer science. In the 1940s a mathematician named John von Neumann, a man with a claim to being the father of the modern computer, invented a hypothetical mathematical entity called a cellular automaton. His aim was to construct a machine that could reproduce itself. In the years since, with the development of hugely more sophisticated and complex computers, von Neumann's insights have gradually led to a point where scientists have created, within the wiring of these machines, something that so closely simulates life that it may, arguably, be called life. This machine reproduces itself, mutates, evolves through generations and dies.-
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Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry
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On Human Nature
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Wonderful Life
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In Search of the Edge of Time
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At Home in the Universe
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles
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Brainstorms
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An Urchin in the Storm
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Bully for Brontosaurus
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Infinity and the Mind
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Fearful Symmetry
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From Eros to Gaia
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The Collapse of Chaos
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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
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The Descent of the Child
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Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
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Labyrinths of Reason
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Other Worlds
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The Left Hand of Creation
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Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
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In Search of the Double Helix
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The Night is Large
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The Artful Universe
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The Neandertal Enigma
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Games of Life
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The Lives to Come
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Bones of Contention
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The Brain
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Who Got Einstein's Office?
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In the Beginning
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Einstein's Universe
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Fire in the Mind
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140231052 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140231056 |
| Title | Artificial Life |
| Author | Steven Levy |
| Series | Penguin Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1993-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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