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Author Bossomaier, Terry.

Title Patterns in the sand : computers, complexity, and everyday life / Terry Bossomaier, David Green ; foreword by Paul Davies.

Imprint Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  530 B655p  1998    ---  Available
Description xviii, 206 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series Frontiers of science (Reading, Mass.)
Note "Helix books"--T.p.
Originally published: St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 202) and index.
Contents Coping with complexity -- Computation -- Military and democratic routes to complexity -- Imbalance of nature -- ABC of nature -- On the importance of being well connected -- Patterns in the sand -- Implications for computers -- Internet : superhighway or goat track? -- Complexity and life.
Subject Science.
Computers.
Computational complexity.
Technological complexity.
Added Author Green, David G. (David Geoffrey), 1949-
Added Title Computers, complexity, and everyday life
ISBN 0738200158 : $23.00

 
    
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