1989 lectures in complex systems : the proceedings of the 1989 Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1989
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1989 lectures in complex systems : the proceedings of the 1989 Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1989
(Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity, Lectures ; v. 2)
Addison-Wesley, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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} 1989 Lectures in Complex Systems is an important introduction for the emerging field of complex systems. Topics covered in the book include problems in computational complexity, chaotic behavior and prediction, chemical dynamics, cellular autmoata and lattice gases, disordered systems, parallel-processing algorithms, morphogenesis, and computational and experimental neurobiology. The understanding of scientific phenomena derived from traditional approaches is combined with the insights gained from a new view of complexity. Emphasis is given to such concepts as order, chaos, randomness, nonlinearity, computability, collective phenomena, and emergent structures.The volume is a comprehensive treatise that presents the work of researchers whose study of specific problems in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science is interlaced throughout by curiosity about the nature and mechanisms of complex behavior. This proceedings volume is based on the 1989 Complex Systems Summer School at St. Johns College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It complements subjects covered in Lectures in the Sciences of Complexity (Addison-Wesley, 1989), edited by Daniel L.
Stern and based on the 1988 Complex Systems Summer School. }
Table of Contents
- Lectures on a Theory of Computation and Complexity over the Reals (or an Arbitrary Ring) (Lenore Blum)
- Algorithmic Information Content, Church-Turing Thesis, Physical Entropy, and Maxwells Demon (W.H. Zurek)
- Physical Measures of Complexity (Seth Lloyd)
- An Introduction to Chaos and Prediction (Stephen Eubank and Doyne Farmer)
- Hamiltonian Chaos in a Nonlinear Polarized Optical Beam (D. David, D.D. Holm, and M.V. Tratnik)
- Chemical Oscillators and Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics (Irving R. Epstein)
- Isotropic Navier-Stokes Turbulence. I. Qualitative Features and Basic Equations (Robert H. Kraichnan)
- Isotropic Navier-Stokes Turbulence. II. Statistical Approximation Methods (Robert H. Kraichnan)
- Lattice Gases (Bruce M. Boghosian)
- Data-Parallel Computation and the Connection Machine (Bruce M. Boghosian)
- Preimages and Forecasting for Cellular Automata (Erica Jen)
- Lattice-Gas Models for Multiphase Flows and Magneto-hydrodynamics (H. Chen, S. Chen, G.D. Doolen, and W.H. Matthaeus)
- Probabalistic Cellular Automata: Some Statistical Mechanical Considerations (Joel L. Lebowitz, Christian Maes, and Eugene R. Speer)
- Complexity Due to Disorder and Frustration (David Sherrington)
- Self-Organization by Simulated Evolution (Aviv Bergman)
- Theoretical Immunology (Alan S. Perelson)
- Morphogenesis by Cell Intercalation (George Oster, Michael Weliky, and Steve Minsuk)
- Theoretical Physics Meets Experimental Neurobiology (William Bialek).
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