Complexity, Language, and Life: Mathematical Approaches

John L. Casti, Anders Karlqvist (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 281 Seiten

2011
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-70955-5 (ISBN)

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In May 1984 the Swedish Council for Scientific Research convened a small group of investigators at the scientific research station at Abisko, Sweden, for the purpose of examining various conceptual and mathematical views of the evolution of complex systems. The stated theme of the meeting was deliberately kept vague, with only the purpose of discussing alternative mathematically based approaches to the modeling of evolving processes being given as a guideline to the participants. In order to limit the scope to some degree, it was decided to emphasize living rather than nonliving processes and to invite participants from a range of disciplinary specialities spanning the spectrum from pure and applied mathematics to geography and analytic philosophy. The results of the meeting were quite extraordinary; while there was no intent to focus the papers and discussion into predefined channels, an immediate self-organizing effect took place and the deliberations quickly oriented themselves into three main streams: conceptual and formal structures for characterizing sys tem complexity; evolutionary processes in biology and ecology; the emergence of complexity through evolution in natural lan guages. The chapters presented in this volume are not the proceed ings of the meeting. Following the meeting, the organizers felt that the ideas and spirit of the gathering should be preserved in some written form, so the participants were each requested to produce a chapter, explicating the views they presented at Abisko, written specifically for this volume. The results of this exercise form the volume you hold in your hand.

John L. Casti, Ph.D., is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and the Technical University of Vienna and the author of Would-Be Worlds and Five Golden Rules (both published by Wiley) as well as The Cambridge Quintet.

1. Allowing, forbidding, but not requiring: a mathematic for a human world.- 2. A theory of stars in complex systems.- 3. Pictures as complex systems.- 4. A survey of replicator equations.- 5. Darwinian evolution in ecosystems: a survey of some ideas and difficulties together with some possible solutions.- 6. On system complexity: identification, measurement, and management.- 7. On information and complexity.- 8. Organs and tools: a common theory of morphogenesis..- 9. The language of life.- 10. Universal principles of measurement and language functions in evolving systems.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.11.2011
Reihe/Serie	Biomathematics
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 281 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	527 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
Schlagworte	Applied mathematics • Biology • Complexity • Complex System • Ecology • Evolution • Mathematics • paper • Philosophy • Structure
ISBN-10	3-642-70955-9 / 3642709559
ISBN-13	978-3-642-70955-5 / 9783642709555
Zustand	Neuware