计算的自然之美
The Computational Beauty of Nature
Gary William Flake · 初版 1998 年
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为什么值得读
- 详尽探讨Boids等自然与物理模型
- 图文并茂且完全没有夸大之词
- 深入浅出阐释涌现与复杂系统概念
“在本书中，Gary William Flake 深入探讨了一个简单的理念：递归规则能够产生丰富而复杂的行为。通过区分‘主体（agents）’（如分子、细胞、动物和物种）与其‘相互作用’（如化学反应、免疫系统反应、有性生殖和进化），Flake 论证了正是相互作用的计算特性构成了我们所认为的‘美妙’与‘有趣’的大部分来源。基于这一基本论点，Flake 探讨了他认为当今最引人注目的四个计算课题：fractals、chaos、compl
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……颠覆性的想法，即“复杂的行为可以由简单的规则产生”，并不是他首创的，而且即便这个消息至今还没传到很多人耳朵里，在过去的几十年里它也早就不算什么革命性概念了。加里·威廉·弗莱克的《大自然的计算之美》是一个通俗易懂的替代之选，里面有有趣的见解、漂亮的图片，没有任何夸大其词：https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...
…revolutionary idea, that "complex behavior can arise from simple rules", wasn't his and, even if the news still hasn't yet reached many people, hadn't been revolutionary for decades. Gary William Flake's "The Computational Beauty of Nature" is an accessible alternative with interesting ideas, pretty pictures, and no hyperbole: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...
想找类似风格、但可能更好读的书，不妨看看《大自然的计算之美》（http://www.amazon.com/The-Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explor...）。
For something in a similar vein, but perhaps more approachable, check out The Computational Beauty of Nature (http://www.amazon.com/The-Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explor...).
……根本不存在什么脱离现实的‘椅子’，只存在这些我们认为足够接近具体事物的抽象概念的具象化实例罢了。”这句话彻底震撼了我。加上九年前《大自然的计算之美》刚出版时我就读了它，这两次关键经历促使我最终选择攻读数学学位。
…there’s no such thing as a chair divorced from reality, there’s nobly instantiations of these abstract concepts we consider close enough to be concrete”. That totally blew my mind. Together with reading The Computational Beauty Of Nature” when it first came out nine years ago those were the two key experiences that drove me towards choosing to get a degree in mathematics.
向所有对 boids（群集仿真）或其他社会、化学和物理现象的计算模型感兴趣的人推荐我最喜欢的书之一：加里·威廉·弗莱克1998年出版的《大自然的计算之美》。作者在书中对 boids 进行了广泛而详尽的探讨。如果我没记错的话，是在第……节。
I recommend one of my favourite books, Gary William Flake’s 1998 The Computational Beauty of Nature to anybody interested in boids or other computational models of social, chemical, and physical phenomena. Therein the author covers boids extensively and in detail. If I am not mistaken it is in section…
虽然不完全只讲这个，但《大自然的计算之美》[1]绝对值得一读。[1] https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explor...
While not just about this, The Computational Beauty of Nature [1] is worth checking out. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explorati...
容我安利一下我最喜欢的书：威廉·加里·弗莱克的《大自然的计算之美》（1997），这是迄今为止我读过的对这类概念探讨得最好的一本书。它有着丰富的探讨、精美的图表、公式与方程，甚至还有可编译的代码——有点像斯蒂芬·……
Let me drop in a plug for my favourite book, William Gary Flake’s The Computational Beauty of Nature (1997), by far the best exploration of these kinds of concepts I have ever encountered. It’s rich in discussion, beautiful diagrams, formulae & equations, and even compilable code—kind of like Stephen…