Complexity a guided tour / Melanie Mitchell.
| Author/creator | Mitchell, Melanie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xvi, 349 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Background and history. What is complexity? ; dynamics, chaos, and prediction ; Information ; Computation ; Evolution ; Genetics, simplified ; Defining and measuring complexity -- Life and evolution in computers. Self-reproducing computer programs ; Genetic algorithms -- Computation writ large. Cellular automata, life, and the universe ; Computing with particles ; Information processing in living systems ; How to make analogies (if you are a computer) ; Prospects of computer modeling -- Network thinking. The science of networks ; Applying network science to real-world networks ; The mystery of scaling ; Evolution, complexified -- Conclusion. The past and future of the sciences of complexity. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-336) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008023794 |
| ISBN | 9780195124415 : |
| ISBN | 0195124413 |