This 4-volume compendium contains the verbatim hard copies of all
color slides from the Chua Lecture Series presented at HP in Palo
Alto, during the period from September 22 to November 24, 2015.
Each lecture consists of 90 minutes, divided into a formal lecture,
a discussion session, and an Encore of special trivia that the
audience found mesmerizing.These lectures share some unique
features of the classic Feynman Lectures on Physics, as much of the
materials are presented in the unique style of the author, and the
content is original as discovered or invented by the author
himself. Unlike most technical books that suffer a notoriously
short life span as their features could be superseded by superior
models, this series of Chua lectures are intended to never be
obsolete - many concepts and principles introduced are in fact new
laws of nature, written in the language of sophomore-level
mathematics, providing the foundation and the elan vital for
initiating and nurturing future concepts and inventions.Volume I -
covers everything that a researcher may want to know about
memristors but is too afraid to ask.Volume II - shows that
memristors can be either volatile or non-volatile, and effectively
proving that synapses are non-volatile memristors, while action
potentials are generated by locally-active memristors.Volume III -
presents an overview of the fascinating phenomenon called chaos,
while immersing the audience with the sights and sound of chaos
from the Chua Circuit, invented in 1984 by Leon Chua, and has now
become the standard textbook example of chaos exhibited by a real
nonlinear electronic circuit, and not by computer
simulations.Volume IV - surprises the audience with a new law of
nature - dubbed the local activity principle, as discovered and
proved mathematically in 1996 by Leon Chua. In particular, a
Corollary of Chua's local activity theorem, dubbed the edge of
chaos, is shown via insightful examples to be the originator of
most complex phenomena, including intelligence, creativity, and
deep learning. The edge of chaos is Mother Nature's tool for
overcoming the tyranny of the second law of thermodynamics by
providing an escape hatch for entropy to decrease over time.
Indeed, the local activity principle which is profusely illustrated
in the final volume, is widely recognized as a new law of
thermodynamics, and is identified as the sine qua non of all
complex phenomena, including life itself.Exclusive Access to the
accompanying Video and Audio materials comes with the purchase of
this book.
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