Anticipatory Systems Philosophical, Mathematical, and Methodological Foundations
Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical biology were tremendous. Founding, with this book, the area of Anticipatory Systems Theory is a remarkable outcome of his work in theoretical biology. This second edition of...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2012, 2012
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Edition: | 2nd ed. 2012 |
Series: | IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Preliminaries
- Natural and Formal Systems
- The Modelling Relation
- The Encodings of Time
- Open Systems and the Modelling Relation
- Anticipatory Systems
- Appendix
- Addendum: Autobiographical Reminiscences
- Index