Research Catalog

Title

Patterns in the sand : computers, complexity, and everyday life / Terry Bossomaier, David Green ; foreword by Paul Davies.

Author

Bossomaier, Terry R. J. (Terry Richard John)

Publication

Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Green, David (David Geoffrey), 1949-
• Green, David G. (David Geoffrey), 1949-

Description

xviii, 206 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Presents a new vision of the most revolutionary scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Annotation. In this fresh look at the science of complexity, a biologist and a computer scientist discuss this profound new field of knowledge, using examples from starfish to traveling salesmen, from car crashes to the workings of the brain.

Series Statement

• Frontiers of science
• Helix book

Uniform Title

Frontiers of science (Reading, Mass.)

Alternative Title

Computers, complexity, and everyday life

Subject

• Computational complexity
• Technological complexity
• Computers
• Science
• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Fractals
• Artificial intelligence

Note

• Originally published: St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 202) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Coping with complexity -- Computation -- Military and democratic routes to complexity -- Imbalance of nature -- ABC of nature -- On the importance of being well connected -- Patterns in the sand -- Implications for computers -- Internet : superhighway or goat track? -- Complexity and life.

ISBN

0738200158 :

LCCN

^^^98086413^

OCLC

40002841

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library