New Constructions in Cellular Automata
ISBN13: 9780195137187ISBN10: 0195137183
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360 pages
Mar 2003,
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Description
This book not only discusses cellular automata (CA) as accouterment for simulation, but also the actual building of devices within cellular automata. CA are widely used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, mathematics, and other fields. But they are also digital "toy universes" worthy of study in their own right, with their own laws of physics and behavior. In studying CA for their own sake, we must look at constructive methods, that is the practice of actually building devices in a given CA that store and process in formation, replicate, and propagate themselves, and interact with other devices in complex ways. By building such machines, we learn what the CA's dynamics are capable of, and build an intuition about how to "engineer" the machine we want. We can also address fundamental questions, such as whether universal computation or even "living" things that reproduce and evolve can exist in the CA's digital world, and perhaps, how these things came to be in out own universe.Product Details
360 pages; 16 color illus, 219 halftones & line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-513718-7ISBN10: 0-19-513718-3About the Author(s)
Edited by David Griffeath, Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin , and Cristopher Moore, Department of Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, The University of New Mexico
