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Complexity, Language, and Life: Mathematical Approaches (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Complexity, Language, and Life: Mathematical Approaches (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
Series: Biomathematics, 16
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In May 1984 the Swedish Council for Scientific Research convened a
small group of investigators at the scientific research station at
Abisko, Sweden, for the purpose of examining various conceptual and
mathematical views of the evolution of complex systems. The stated
theme of the meeting was deliberately kept vague, with only the
purpose of discussing alternative mathematically based approaches
to the modeling of evolving processes being given as a guideline to
the participants. In order to limit the scope to some degree, it
was decided to emphasize living rather than nonliving processes and
to invite participants from a range of disciplinary specialities
spanning the spectrum from pure and applied mathematics to
geography and analytic philosophy. The results of the meeting were
quite extraordinary; while there was no intent to focus the papers
and discussion into predefined channels, an immediate
self-organizing effect took place and the deliberations quickly
oriented themselves into three main streams: conceptual and formal
structures for characterizing sys tem complexity; evolutionary
processes in biology and ecology; the emergence of complexity
through evolution in natural lan guages. The chapters presented in
this volume are not the proceed ings of the meeting. Following the
meeting, the organizers felt that the ideas and spirit of the
gathering should be preserved in some written form, so the
participants were each requested to produce a chapter, explicating
the views they presented at Abisko, written specifically for this
volume. The results of this exercise form the volume you hold in
your hand."
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