Description
Book SynopsisExploring the syntax and semantics of the language in which mathematical modelling rules are written, this text moves from the basics of modelling to the upper reaches of scientific and philosophical speculation.
Table of ContentsStrategies for Survival: Competition, Games and the Theory of Evolution.
The Analytical Engine: A System-Theoretic View of Brains, Minds and Mechanisms.
Taming Nature and Man: Control, Anticipation and Adaptation in Social and Biological Processes.
The Geometry of Human Affairs: Connective Structure in Art, Literature and Games of Chance.
The Mystique of Mechanism: Computation, Complexity and the Limits to Reason.
How Do We Know?: Myths, Models and Paradigms in the Creation of Beliefs.
Index.
