Habits Quote by Rich Jolly

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

— Margaret Wertheim

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple…

— Neil Gershenfeld

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to…

— Jean Baudrillard

“In system dynamic simulation, this data set is referred to as the reference behavior pattern (RBP).”

— Rich Jolly

Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior…

— Robert L. Devaney

“Under the simulation hypothesis, computations evolve our Universe, but under the MUH they merely describe it by evaluating its relations.”

— Max Tegmark

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than…

— John Forbes Nash

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large…

— Guido van Rossum

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that…

— Seth Lloyd

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

— John Henry Holland