The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

Preface
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1 Introduction
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2 Number Systems and Infinity
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3 Computability and Incomputability
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4 Postscript: Computation
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5 Self-Similarity and Fractal Geometry
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6 L-Systems and Fractal Growth
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7 Affine Transformation Fractals
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8 The Mandelbrot Set and Julia Sets
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9 Postscript: Fractals
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10 Nonlinear Dynamics in Simple Maps
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11 Strange Attractors
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12 Producer-Consumer Dynamics
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13 Controlling Chaos
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14 Postscript: Chaos
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15 Cellular Automata
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16 Autonomous Agents and Self-Organization......Page 257
17 Competition and Cooperationg
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18 Natural and Analog Computation
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19 Postscript: Complex Systems
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20 Genetics and Evolution
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21 Classifier Systems
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22 Neural Networks and Learning
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23 Postscript: Adaptation
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24 Duality and Dichotomy
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Source Code Notes
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Index
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