Description
Book SynopsisCasti Tours offers the most spectacular vistas of modern appliedmathematics.-- Nature
Mathematical modeling is about rules--the rules of reality. RealityRules explores the syntax and semantics of the language in whichthese rules are written, the language of mathematics. Characterizedby the clarity and vision typical of the author''s previous books,Reality Rules is a window onto the competing dialects of thislanguage--in the form of mathematical models of real-worldphenomena--that researchers use today to frame their views ofreality.
Moving from the irreducible basics of modeling to the upper reachesof scientific and philosophical speculation, Volumes 1 and 2, TheFundamentals and The Frontier, are ideal complements, equallymatched in difficulty, yet unique in their coverage of issuescentral to the contemporary modeling of complex systems.
Engagingly written and handsomely illustrated, Reality Rules is afascinating journey into the conceptual underpinnings of r
Table of ContentsStrategies for Survival: Competition, Games and the Theory ofEvolution.
The Analytical Engine: A System-Theoretic View of Brains, Minds andMechanisms.
Taming Nature and Man: Control, Anticipation and Adaptation inSocial 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 Limitsto Reason.
How Do We Know?: Myths, Models and Paradigms in the Creation ofBeliefs.
Index.
