From Fractals And Cellular Automata To Biology Information As Order Hidden Within Chance

Author : Alberto Strumia
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811217173

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From Fractals And Cellular Automata To Biology: Information As Order Hidden Within Chance by Alberto Strumia Pdf

The didactical level of exposition, together with many astonishing images and animations, accompanied by the related simple computer programming codes (in Python and POV-Ray languages) make this book an extremely and unique useful tool to test the power of algorithmic information in generating ordered structure models (2D and 3D) like regular geometric shapes, complex shapes like fractals and cellular automata, and biological systems as the organs of a living body. Informational biologists besides mathematicians and physicists of complexity may learn to test their own capabilities in programming and modelling ordered structures starting from random initial conditions at different scale of each system: from elementary particles, to biological systems, to galaxies and the whole universe. Moreover the philosophical comments comparing some aspects of modern information theory to the Aristotelian notion of 'form are very appealing also for the epistemologist and the philosopher involved in complexity matters.

Author : Michael Frame,Nial Neger
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789811218477

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Kitchen Science Fractals: A Lab Manual For Fractal Geometry by Michael Frame,Nial Neger Pdf

This book provides a collection of 44 simple computer and physical laboratory experiments, including some for an artist's studio and some for a kitchen, that illustrate the concepts of fractal geometry. In addition to standard topics — iterated function systems (IFS), fractal dimension computation, the Mandelbrot set — we explore data analysis by driven IFS, construction of four-dimensional fractals, basic multifractals, synchronization of chaotic processes, fractal finger paints, cooking fractals, videofeedback, and fractal networks of resistors and oscillators.

Author : Lui Lam
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813103702

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Nonlinear Physics For Beginners: Fractals, Chaos, Solitons, Pattern Formation, Cellular Automata And Complex Systems by Lui Lam Pdf

Almost all real systems are nonlinear. For a nonlinear system the superposition principle breaks down: The system's response is not proportional to the stimulus it receives; the whole is more than the sum of its parts. The three parts of this book contains the basics of nonlinear science, with applications in physics. Part I contains an overview of fractals, chaos, solitons, pattern formation, cellular automata and complex systems. In Part II, 14 reviews and essays by pioneers, as well as 10 research articles are reprinted. Part III collects 17 students projects, with computer algorithms for simulation models included.The book can be used for self-study, as a textbook for a one-semester course, or as supplement to other courses in linear or nonlinear systems. The reader should have some knowledge in introductory college physics. No mathematics beyond calculus and no computer literacy are assumed.

Author : Willi-Hans Steeb
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814583497

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The Nonlinear Workbook by Willi-Hans Steeb Pdf

The Nonlinear Workbook provides a comprehensive treatment of all the techniques in nonlinear dynamics together with C++, Java and SymbolicC++ implementations. The book not only covers the theoretical aspects of the topics but also provides the practical tools. To understand the material, more than 100 worked out examples and 160 ready to run programs are included. Each chapter provides a collection of interesting problems. New topics added to the 6th edition are Swarm Intelligence, Quantum Cellular Automata, Hidden Markov Model and DNA, Birkhoff's ergodic theorem and chaotic maps, Banach fixed point theorem and applications, tau-wavelets of Haar, Boolean derivatives and applications, and Cartan forms and Lagrangian. Request Inspection Copy

Author : Willi-Hans Steeb
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813100701

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The Nonlinear Workbook by Willi-Hans Steeb Pdf

The Nonlinear Workbook provides a comprehensive treatment of all the techniques in nonlinear dynamics together with C++, Java and SymbolicC++ implementations. The book not only covers the theoretical aspects of the topics but also provides the practical tools. To understand the material, more than 100 worked out examples and 150 ready to run programs are included. New topics added to the fifth edition are Langton's ant, chaotic data communication, self-controlling feedback, differential forms and optimization, T-norms and T-conorms with applications.

Author : Giancarlo Mauri,Samira El Yacoubi,Alberto Dennunzio,Katsuhiro Nishinari,Luca Manzoni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319998138

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Cellular Automata by Giancarlo Mauri,Samira El Yacoubi,Alberto Dennunzio,Katsuhiro Nishinari,Luca Manzoni Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2018, held in Como, Italy, in September 2018. The 47 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. This volume contains invited contributions and accepted papers from the main track and from the three organized workshops. The volume is organized in the following topics: biological systems modeling; simulation and other applications of CA; multi-agent systems; pedestrian and traffic dynamics; synchronization and control; theory and cryptography; asynchronous cellular automata; and crowds, traffic and cellular automata.

Author : M. Mitchell Waldrop
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781504059145

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Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop Pdf

“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Arthur Walter Burks
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015004495571

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Essays on Cellular Automata by Arthur Walter Burks Pdf

Author : Gabriele A. Losa,Danilo Merlini,Theo F. Nonnenmacher,Ewald R. Weibel
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034881197

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Fractals in Biology and Medicine by Gabriele A. Losa,Danilo Merlini,Theo F. Nonnenmacher,Ewald R. Weibel Pdf

In March 2000 leading scientists gathered at the Centro Seminariale Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, for the Third International Symposium on "Fractals 2000 in Biology and Medicine". This interdisciplinary conference provided stimulating contributions from the very topical field Fractals in Biology and Medicine. This volume highlights the growing power and efficacy of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyze living phenomena and complex shapes.

Author : Tamás Vicsek,Michael F. Shlesinger,Mitsugu Matsushita
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810216246

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Fractals in Natural Sciences by Tamás Vicsek,Michael F. Shlesinger,Mitsugu Matsushita Pdf

During the last couple of years, fractals have been shown to represent the common aspects of many complex processes occurring in an unusually diverse range of fields including biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics and technology. Using fractal geometry as a language, it has become possible to get a deeper insight into previously intractable problems. Among many others, a better understanding of growth phenomena, turbulence, iteractive functions, colloidal aggregation, biological pattern formation and inhomogenous materials has emerged through the application of such concepts as scale invariance, self-affinity and multifractality.This volume contains a selection of high quality papers that discuss the latest developments in the research of fractals. It is divided into 5 sections and contains altogether 64 papers. Each paper is written by a well known author or authors in the field. Beginning each section is a short introduction, written by a prominent author, which gives a brief overview of the topics discussed in the respective sections.

Author : René Doursat,Hiroki Sayama,Olivier Michel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642339028

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Morphogenetic Engineering by René Doursat,Hiroki Sayama,Olivier Michel Pdf

Generally, spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constructions are exceptional examples of complex systems that are both self-organized and architectural. This book is the first initiative of its kind toward establishing a new field of research, Morphogenetic Engineering, to explore the modeling and implementation of “self-architecturing” systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the programmability and computational abilities of self-organization, properties that are often underappreciated in complex systems science—while, conversely, the benefits of self-organization are often underappreciated in engineering methodologies. Altogether, the aim of this work is to provide a framework for and examples of a larger class of “self-architecturing” systems, while addressing fundamental questions such as br” How do biological organisms carry out morphogenetic tasks so reliably? br” Can we extrapolate their self-formation capabilities to engineered systems?br” Can physical systems be endowed with information (or informational systems be embedded in physics) so as to create autonomous morphologies and functions?br” What are the core principles and best practices for the design and engineering of such morphogenetic systems?

Author : Heinz-Otto Peitgen,Hartmut Jürgens,Dietmar Saupe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781475747409

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Chaos and Fractals by Heinz-Otto Peitgen,Hartmut Jürgens,Dietmar Saupe Pdf

For almost ten years chaos and fractals have been enveloping many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in their power, creativity and expanse. Reaching far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the realms of popular culture, they have captured the attention and enthusiasm of a worldwide audience. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the central ideas and concepts, as well as many related topics including, the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Cellular Automata, L-Systems, Percolation and Strange Attractors, and each closes with the computer code for a central experiment. In the two appendices, Yuval Fisher discusses the details and ideas of fractal image compression, while Carl J.G. Evertsz and Benoit Mandelbrot introduce the foundations and implications of multifractals.

Author : Kim Sneppen,Giovanni Zocchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521844193

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Physics in Molecular Biology by Kim Sneppen,Giovanni Zocchi Pdf

This book, first published in 2005, is a discussion for advanced physics students of how to use physics to model biological systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000144277161

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Indiana University Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Wolfram
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780429973727

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Cellular Automata And Complexity by Stephen Wolfram Pdf

Are mathematical equations the best way to model nature? For many years it had been assumed that they were. But in the early 1980s, Stephen Wolfram made the radical proposal that one should instead build models that are based directly on simple computer programs. Wolfram made a detailed study of a class of such models known as cellular automata, and discovered a remarkable fact: that even when the underlying rules are very simple, the behaviour they produce can be highly complex, and can mimic many features of what we see in nature. And based on this result, Wolfram began a program of research to develop what he called A Science of Complexity."The results of Wolfram's work found many applications, from the so-called Wolfram Classification central to fields such as artificial life, to new ideas about cryptography and fluid dynamics. This book is a collection of Wolfram's original papers on cellular automata and complexity. Some of these papers are widely known in the scientific community others have never been published before. Together, the papers provide a highly readable account of what has become a major new field of science, with important implications for physics, biology, economics, computer science and many other areas.