"Simulation," writes Gary Flake in his preface, "becomes a form of experimentation in a universe of theories. The primary purpose of this book is to celebrate this fact."In this book, Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and species) from th...(展开全部)

"Simulation," writes Gary Flake in his preface, "becomes a form of experimentation in a universe of theories. The primary purpose of this book is to celebrate this fact."In this book, Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and species) from th...(展开全部)

弗里德里希·克拉默，1923年生，1950年起任海德堡大学讲师，1959年任达姆施塔特大学有机化学教授，1962～1991年任马克斯·普朗克实验医学研究所所长，同时任不伦瑞克大学和格丁根大学名誉教授，著有《美的自然——美的形式动力学》、《沿山脊前行——艺术的混沌和时间的秩序》等16部著作。

The fourteen chapters of this book cover the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics including: the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, cellular automata, L-systems, percolation and strange attractors. This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout. The appendices of the original edition were taken out since more recent publications cove...(展开全部)

Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Neverthe...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive introduction to quantitative approaches to complex adaptive systems. Practically all areas of life on this planet are constantly confronted with complex systems, be it ecosystems, societies, traffic, financial markets, opinion formation and spreading, or the internet and social media. Complex systems are systems composed of many elements that intera...(展开全部)

Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may govern such apparently random behavior -- has been a major part of the work of Edwar...(展开全部)

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems - whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies - present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical de...(展开全部)

纳塔莉・安吉尔 纳塔莉・安吉尔：《纽约时报》科普专栏作家，她把创造性和无穷探索的精神与机智幽默的文学风格结合起来，对大自然和生命本质进行深刻考察和思索，对人类最新科学成就进行通俗而又妙趣横生的综述。其杰出成就使她获得了新闻及科普文学的最高奖项――普利策奖、刘易斯・托马斯奖和美国科学进步协会奖。本书是其最为人所称道的代表作，在美国畅销不衰。