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Introduction to Artificial Life
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Author: Christoph Adami
List Price: $69.95
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ISBN: 0387946462
Publisher: Telos Pr (19 December, 1997)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 95,573
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Great Content, Author Can't Explain Clearly Though
I bought this book to understand the mathematics and physics in A-Life and Complexity. Instead I found this book very long winded and difficult to comprehend exactly what was trying to be said. The content and layout of the book is great, just wish a better writer had been the author of this book. Lots of fancy, big words that are not needed to get the basic points across. Very hard to understand what is being said. It takes smarts and skill to explain complicated, abstract ideas in a meaningful manner. This book does not do that. I wish it did!
Rating: 5 out of 5
At times cryptic, but nevertheless marvellous
This is the ONLY book I have seen which brings together all the many and various strands which are essential to the exciting new subjects arising currently around the question: What is Life? It is a stunning tour de force of the basic knowledge you need to possess to work in the areas of A-life or biological complexity.I should warn: it's not a book I could read through in an afternoon, by any means. At times the descriptions are a little cryptic, so that I had to work at understanding what was being said. But the effort I had to put in was always rewarded with greater understanding. Thank you, Chris Adami.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Hard Science
Adami demonstrates how to use the tools of artificial life to conduct pure scientific research. A very clear and readable textbook on the subject, Adami makes me want to go back to graduate school. Here is a chance to take an introductory course in an exciting field of research that is truely table-top science. I loved the book and I didn't even use the CD and software that came with it.
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