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In this book, Gary Williams Flake develops in depth the simple ideas that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviours. Distinguishing agents (such as molecules, cells, animals, and species) from their interactions (like chemical reactions, immune system responses, sexual reproduction and evolution), Flake argues that it is the computational properties of interactions that account for much of what we think of as beautiful and interesting. From this basic thesis, Flake explores what he considers to be today's four most interesting computational topics: fractals, chaos, complex systems and adaptation.
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Dorothiea Gandolfo
reviewed The computational beauty of nature on May 10, 2014
The computational beauty of nature
An introduction to several strands of mathematics and computer science which have parallels in nature and biology. The topics covered include:
+ Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
+ Fractals
+ Chaos
+ Cellular Automata
+ Genetic Algorithms
Because of the breadth of topics, the subject matter is sometimes treated fairly lightly. Although this sort of introductory treatment was exactly what I wanted, I occasionaly found the explanations to be too hand-wavy, especially some of the philosophical asides.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading this book very much. It's probably the only book that combines all of these topics into one comprehensive volume.
The book has its own website with source code for the programs used to investigate the various subjects.
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