TY  - BOOK
AU  - Casti,J.L.
TI  - Alternate realities: mathematical models of nature and man 
T2  - A Wiley-Interscience publication
SN  - 047161842X
AV  - QA 401 .C358
PY  - 1989///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - System analysis
KW  - Dynamical systems
N1  - "A Wiley-Interscience publication."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The ways of modelmaking: natural systems and formal mathematical representations -- Pattern and the emergence of living forms: cellular automata and discrete dynamics -- The analytical engine: a Newtonian view of brains, minds and mechanisms -- Catastrophes and life: the singularities of ecological and natural resource systems -- Order in chaos: turbulence and pattern in the flow of fluids, populations and money -- Strategies for survival: competition, games and the theory of evolution -- Taming nature and man: control, anticipation, and adaptation in social and biological processes -- The geometry of human affairs: connective structure in art, literature and games of chance -- How do we know?: Myths, models and paradigms in the creation of beliefs
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley042/88022337.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley033/88022337.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix04/88022337.html
UR  - http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht003299474.pdf
UR  - http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/?an=0676.00028
ER  -