Emergence: From Chaos to Order - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780738201429ISBN-10:738201421UPC:9780738201429Book Category:Science, Computers, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Chaotic Behavior in Systems, Interactive & Multimedia, Popular CultureSize:8.23 x 5.34 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SC9KY343G3
Emergence: From Chaos to Order
In this important book, John H. Holland dramatically shows us that the "emergence" of order from disorder has much to teach us about life, mind and organizations. Creative activities in both the arts and the sciences depend upon an ability to model the world. The most creative of those models exhibits emergent properties, so that "what comes out is more than what goes in." From the ingenious...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780738201429ISBN-10:738201421UPC:9780738201429Book Category:Science, Computers, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Chaotic Behavior in Systems, Interactive & Multimedia, Popular CultureSize:8.23 x 5.34 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SC9KY343G3
John H. Holland holds joint appointments in the Electrical Engineering and Psychology Departments of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is known worldwide as the "father of genetic algorithms" and as one of the deans of "complexity studies" at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of the groundbreaking book Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (also from Perseus Books).
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