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Computational Beauty of Nature PDF
Computational Beauty of Nature PDF
Computational Beauty of Nature PDF
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
Contents
Preface xiii
How to Read This Book xiv
Dealing with Difficult Subjects xv
Personal Motivation xvi
Acknowledgments xvi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Simplicity and Complexity 2
1.2 The Convergence of the Sciences
1.3 The Silicon Laboratory 6
I Computation 9
4 Postscript: Computation 51
4.1 Godel's Incompleteness Result 52
4.2 Incompleteness versus Incomputability 53
4.3 Discrete versus Continuous 55
4.4 Incomputability versus Computability 56
4.5 Further Reading 57
II Fractals 59
V Adaptation 337
Epilogue 425