The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
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Review
"This delightful book illustrates beautifully the paradigm shift in physics from writing equations and solving them to computer modeling and experimentation."
—Greg Chaitin, author of The Limits of Mathematics
"This book is a delight."
—Barak Pearlmutter, University of New Mexico
About the Author
Gary William Flake is a wandering scholar at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.
Benny Cheung (Toronto, Canada) | 
18/02/2000
18/02/2000
Computing books are divided into immediate needs for professional life and spiritual food for enriching computing life. This book is the second type. Just by reading the preface, you get the sense of pure fun side of computing and the author's noble goal to bring this book to you. Some book's info will only last for a few months but this book will last for a long time in your computing life.
Every chapter is filled with inspiration. The author has carefully crafted a program for every chapter for you to enjoy. This reading and playing style fits the topic greatly. Although you will still see some math notations (some are hard to follow), I tried hard to follow and enjoy the beauty in the notation and mathematical side of the story.
If you go to the book's website, you can download the source code (including someone port the software to Java source code). I find the Java demo is better to run.
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