Table of Contents

Games and Decisions: The Minimax Theorem; Order Out of Chaos: The Dynamical System Theorem; The Shape of Things: Singularity Theory and Morse's Theorem and Computation; Who's In, Who's Out: Group Theory and the Thompson Theorem; The Simple and the Complex: Control Theory and the Kalman Filter.

About the Author

JOHN L. CASTI is a resident member of the Santa Fe Institute and a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. He is the author of three previous trade books, Paradigms Lost, Searching for Certainty, and Complexification, as well as the two volume Reality Rules, a text on mathematical modeling.