Modeling reality: how computers mirror life
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 to Königsberg: graph theory -- Prisoner's …
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- Full title :Modeling reality : how computers mirror life / Iwo Białynicki-Birula, Iwona Białynicka-Birula.
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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 to 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.
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- Publication Date:2004.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
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- Description:1 online resource (180 p.) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1435609697, 9781435609693
- oclc:ocn528644746
- LC Classification:QC6.4.R42
- Dewey Decimal:530/.01
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