Qualitative computing : a computational journey into nonlinearity /

Qualitative computing : a computational journey into nonlinearity /

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Author / Creator:	Chaitin-Chatelin, Françoise, author.
Imprint:	Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 582 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Language:	English
Subject:	Social sciences -- Data processing. Qualitative research -- Data processing. Social sciences -- Data processing. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11268580

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ISBN:	9814322938 9789814322935 9789814322928 9789814322935 981432292X
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	High technology industries are in desperate need for adequate tools to assess the validity of simulations produced by ever faster computers for perennial unstable problems. In order to meet these industrial expectations, applied mathematicians are facing a formidable challenge summarized by these words - nonlinearity and coupling. This book is unique as it proposes truly original solutions: (1) Using hypercomputation in quadratic algebras, as opposed to the traditional use of linear vector spaces in the 20th century; (2) complementing the classical linear logic by the complex logic which expresses the creative potential of the complex plane. The book illustrates how qualitative computing has been the driving force behind the evolution of mathematics since Pythagoras presented the first incompleteness result about the irrationality of [symbol]2. The celebrated results of Godel and Turing are but modern versions of the same idea: the classical logic of Aristotle is too limited to capture the dynamics of nonlinear computation. Mathematics provides us with the missing tool, the organic logic, which is aptly tailored to model the dynamics of nonlinearity. This logic will be the core of the "Mathematics for Life" to be developed during this century.
Other form:	Print version: 9789814322928 981432292X

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Summary:	High technology industries are in desperate need for adequate tools to assess the validity of simulations produced by ever faster computers for perennial unstable problems. In order to meet these industrial expectations, applied mathematicians are facing a formidable challenge summarized by these words -- nonlinearity and coupling. This book is unique as it proposes truly original solutions: (1) Using hypercomputation in quadratic algebras, as opposed to the traditional use of linear vector spaces in the 20th century; (2) complementing the classical linear logic by the complex logic which expresses the creative potential of the complex plane.The book illustrates how qualitative computing has been the driving force behind the evolution of mathematics since Pythagoras presented the first incompleteness result about the irrationality of √2. The celebrated results of G#65533;del and Turing are but modern versions of the same idea: the classical logic of Aristotle is too limited to capture the dynamics of nonlinear computation. Mathematics provides us with the missing tool, the organic logic, which is aptly tailored to model the dynamics of nonlinearity. This logic will be the core of the "Mathematics for Life" to be developed during this century.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xv, 582 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9814322938 9789814322935 9789814322928 981432292X