The Computational Beauty of Nature / Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation 

 -  The MIT Press,  1998 
 - 500 
<br/><br/> In this book, Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Preface, Introduction, Computation, Number Systems and Incomputability, Fractals, Affine Transformation Fractals, The Mandelbrot Set and Julia Sets, Chaos, Controlling Chaos, Strange Attractors, Complex Systems, Cellular Automata, Natrural and Analog Computation, Adaptation, Genetics and Evaluation, Neural Networks and Learning, Epilogue, Duality and Dichotomy, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>262062003