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Reality Rules, The Frontier (Reality Rules, Volume 2)
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Reality Rules, The Frontier (Reality Rules, Volume 2) Paperback - 1997

by Casti, John

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  • Title Reality Rules, The Frontier (Reality Rules, Volume 2)
  • Author Casti, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons
  • Date 1997-03-27
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0471184365.G
  • ISBN 9780471184362 / 0471184365
  • Weight 3.27 lbs (1.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.06 x 7.17 x 1.55 in (25.55 x 18.21 x 3.94 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92012213
  • Dewey Decimal Code 511.8

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In the Darwinian battle for survival, Fortune's formula may be compactly expressed as heredity + variation + selection = adaptation, encapsulating in four everyday words over a century's worth of scholarly and public debate about the nature of change in living organisms, and the degree to which that process, whatever it may be, is homologous to the flow of human affairs.

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"Casti Tours offers the most spectacular vistas of modern applied mathematics."-- Nature

Mathematical modeling is about rules--the rules of reality. Reality Rules explores the syntax and semantics of the language in which these rules are written, the language of mathematics. Characterized by the clarity and vision typical of the author's previous books, Reality Rules is a window onto the competing dialects of this language--in the form of mathematical models of real-world phenomena--that researchers use today to frame their views of reality.

Moving from the irreducible basics of modeling to the upper reaches of scientific and philosophical speculation, Volumes 1 and 2, The Fundamentals and The Frontier, are ideal complements, equally matched in difficulty, yet unique in their coverage of issues central to the contemporary modeling of complex systems.

Engagingly written and handsomely illustrated, Reality Rules is a fascinating journey into the conceptual underpinnings of reality itself, one that examines the major themes in dynamical system theory and modeling and the issues related to mathematical models in the broader contexts of science and philosophy. Far-reaching and far-sighted, Reality Rules is destined to shape the insight and work of students, researchers, and scholars in mathematics, science, and the social sciences for generations to come.

Of related interest . . .

ALTERNATE REALITIES

Mathematical Models of Nature and Man

John L. Casti

A thoroughly modern account of the theory and practice of mathematical modeling with a treatment focusing on system-theoretic concepts such as complexity, self-organization, adaptation, bifurcation, resilience, surprise and uncertainty, and the mathematical structures needed to employ these in a formal system.

1989 0-471-61842-X 493pp.

About the author

John L. Casti is a member of the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. He is the author of Alternate Realities, Paradigms Lost, Searching for Certainty, Complexification, and Five Golden Rules. Dr. Casti is the executive editor of Complexity, a journal published by John Wiley.

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