Notes

Chapter 7: Mechanisms in Programs and Nature


Section 9: Origins of Simple Behavior

Examples of nesting Nested lists Nesting in numbers [Nesting in] phase transitions [Nesting in] random walks Origins of localized structures [Overall] structure of algorithms Previous approaches [to complexity] Repetition in continuous systems Repetition in numbers Self-organized criticality Uniformity in frequency

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]