Modeling Reality
Modeling Reality
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This book is for everyone (college and high-school students, school teachers and the general public) who wants to learn about many fascinating ideas that have come to the fore with recent advances in the application of computers to real life situations.
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Modeling Reality by Iwo Bialynicki-Birula
The book Modeling Reality covers a wide range of fascinating subjects, accessible to anyone who wants to learn about the use of computer modeling to solve a diverse range of problems, but who does not possess a specialized training in mathematics or computer science. The material presented is pitched at the level of high-school graduates, even though it covers some advanced topics (cellular automata, Shannon's measure of information, deterministic chaos, fractals, game theory, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and Turing machines). These advanced topics are explained in terms of well known simple concepts: Cellular automata - Game of Life, Shannon's formula - Game of twenty questions, Game theory - Television quiz, etc. The book is unique in explaining in a straightforward, yet complete, fashion many important ideas, related to various models of reality and their applications.
.. an intelligent, well-written, well-organized and highly accessible introduction to a broad range of fascinating topics in modern science and mathematical modeling. * Cosma Shalizi, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan *
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland Warsaw University PhD in Theoretical Physics 1959 University of Rochester, Research Associate 1959-1961 University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Professor 1969-1971, 1985-1986 University of Frankfurt, Visiting Scholar 1992-1993 University of Ulm, Alexander von Humboldt Award Recipient 1994-1995 Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Galileo Galilei School, University of Pisa, Italy MS in Computer Science from Warsaw University 2003
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780198531005 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198531001 |
| Title | Modeling Reality |
| Author | Iwo Bialynicki-Birula |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2004-10-21 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |