Would-be worlds : (Record no. 43644)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780471196938 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 003.7 |
| Item number | CAS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Casti, John L. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Would-be worlds : |
| Remainder of title | how simulation is changing the frontiers of science |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | John Wiley & sons |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1997 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii,242p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Preface<br/>Chapter 1 Reality Bytes 1<br/>Up and Down the Electronic Gridiron ■ Distant Suns and Planetary Nebula ■ A Gallery of Models ■ Models for All Occasions ■ The Philosopher's Stones ■ Semper Fidelis? ■ The Art of the Model ■ But Can We Trust It? ■ "Hypotheticality" ■ From Real Space to Cyberspace<br/>Chapter 2 Pictures as Programs 37<br/>That's Life? ■ The Genesis Machine ■ The Electronic Abacus ■ The Creative Computer ■ Worlds in Silico ■ The Emergence of "Emergence"<br/>Chapter 3 The Science of Surprise 83<br/>Problems and Paradoxes ■ The Fingerprints of the Complex ■ Illusions of the Mind » A Little Can Be a Lot ■ The Rules of the Game ■ Proofs and Programs ■ The Connections That Count ■ The Laws of Emergence<br/>Chapter 4 Artificial Worlds 131<br/>xiisiana Saturday Afternoon ■ Microworlds, Macrobehaviors-[ow Life Learns to Live ■ Tierra ■ Societies in Silicon ■ gment Calls ■ Building Silicon Worlds<br/>Chapter 5 Reality of the Virtual 183<br/>ide Information ■ The Moral of the Model ■ Limits to entific Knowledge ■ Computation UberAlles ■ Toward a sory of the Complex<br/>References 217<br/>Index 233<br/><br/> |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 46681 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | Gratis from Dr. Bharat Dave |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 11/04/2016 | Dr. Bharat Dave | 0.00 | 2 | 003.7 CAS | 015532 | 01/02/2023 | 25/01/2023 | 0.00 | 11/04/2016 | Book |