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by John Casti (Author) "Contrary to popular belief, the world's greatest sporting event in terms of prolonged, worldwide interest is not the Olympic Games ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New edition edition (26 Feb 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471196932
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471196938
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"As we approach a new century, modelling through new mathematical insights and powerful computers grows apace. John Casti has written a truly important book."––The Sunday Times (London).

"As a popular account of the enormous change computers have brought to the everyday practice of science, it is an easy and enjoyable read."––Nature.

"Would–Be Worlds gives a spectacular view of this new intellectual landscape."––New Scientist

Acclaimed popular science writer John Casti takes us on a fascinating romp through the remarkable simulated worlds being fashioned from the bits and bytes of computers. A new generation of technological marvels now enables scientists to recreate lifelike computer models to better everything from traffic patterns and the stock market to weather systems and the working of human brains.

JOHN L. CASTI, PhD, (Santa Fe, New Mexico) is a resident researcher at the Santa Fe Institute and a professor at the Institute for Economics, Operations Research, and System Theory at the Technical University of Vienna. He is the author of Searching for Certainty, Paradigms Lost, Complexification and Five Golden Rules (Wiley).

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Critical acclaim for How Simulation Is Changing the Frontiers of Science

"John Casti is one of the great science writers of the 1990s." —San Francisco Examiner.

"A popular account of the enormous change computers have brought to the everyday practice of science . . . an easy and enjoyable read." —Nature.

"As we approach a new century, modelling through new mathematical insights and powerful computers grows apace . . . .John Casti has written a truly important book." —The Sunday Times.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful non-technical treatment of modelling & simulation, 3 Feb 1997
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Casti is a lucid and entertaining writer and has sufficient depth in his own subject and breadth in other disciplines as to be well placed to write a book on modelling and simulation. This is an excellent introduction to some of the mathematical, logical, and philosophical problems of and raised by the increasing use of simulation to investigate 'real-world' problems. It assumes no background beyond a general interest in science.
If this book has weaknesses they tend to be of the variety that afflicts much modern writing in popular science. Editors rather than authors, perhaps? A sizeable portion of the plates and diagrams add nothing to the book ("gee, John, this is a popular science book - we gotta have some pictures") plus a preference for rushing to mine the next source of the 'gee-whiz' factor rather than grappling with consequences.
The strapline on the cover is 'how simulation is changing the frontiers of science' and I'm not at all sure that this question is answered. The last chapter makes an unconvincing attempt to be a summary, but is in fact the least interesting of the five trailing off rather weakly into a 'what we really need is a theory of complex systems' position.
But, the acid test - did I learn anything from this book? Most definitely, yes. - Ashley Oliver
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