Title Patterns in the sand : computers, complexity, and everyday life / Terry Bossomaier, David Green ; foreword by Paul Davies.

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Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, 1998.

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Description	xviii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series	Frontiers of science
	Frontiers of science (Reading, Mass.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 202) and index.
Note	Originally published: St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.
Contents	Coping with complexity -- Computation -- Military and democratic routes to complexity -- Imbalance of nature -- ABC of nature -- On the importance of being well connected -- Patterns in the sand -- Implications for computers -- Internet : Superhighway or goat track? -- Complexity and life.
Summary	Presents a new vision of the most revolutionary scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Annotation. In this fresh look at the science of complexity, a biologist and a computer scientist discuss this profound new field of knowledge, using examples from starfish to traveling salesmen, from car crashes to the workings of the brain.
Subject	Chaotic behavior in systems.
	Computational complexity.
	Fractals.
	Artificial intelligence.
	Computers.
	Artificial intelligence. (OCoLC)fst00817247
	Chaotic behavior in systems. (OCoLC)fst00852171
	Computational complexity. (OCoLC)fst00871991
	Computers. (OCoLC)fst00872776
	Fractals. (OCoLC)fst00933507
Added Author	Green, David G. (David Geoffrey), 1949-
Other Form:	Online version: Bossomaier, Terry R.J. (Terry Richard John). Patterns in the sand. Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, 1998 (OCoLC)607204007
	Online version: Bossomaier, Terry R.J. (Terry Richard John). Patterns in the sand. Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, 1998 (OCoLC)608474960
Standard No.	780738200156 52300
ISBN	0738200158
	9780738200156

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