The Computational Beauty of Nature

Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

Changes
  • Source code program usage: The -term command-line option can now take four new (or modified) values:

    1. -term X11    color graphics under X11.
    2. -term x11    grayscale graphics under X11.
    3. -term Win    color graphics under Windows 95/98/NT.
    4. -term win    grayscale graphics under Windows
    5. -term Mac    color graphics under Mac OS.
    6. -term mac    grayscale graphics under Mac OS.

  • Source code program usage: All reference to the -xmag option should now be changed to -mag because this option now affects both Windows and X11.

Typos
Special thanks to Cosma Shalizi for pointing out most of these. All typos below will be corrected in the second printing (which is occuring at this moment).

  • page 18 - next to last line, for "rational" read "irrational"
  • page 72 - for "Brown noise" read "white noise". This occurs in two locations. The first instance should remain in Italic.
  • page 207 - first paragraph, for "perpindicular" read "parallel"
  • page 231 - for "T. H. Hardy" read "T. H. Huxley"
  • page 310 - for "The first neural model" read "One early neural model"
  • page 380 - Richard E. Nisbet and Paul R. Thagard are missing from the list of authors of Induction
  • page 435 - URL for website should now be: http://mitpress.mit.edu/flake/
  • page 445 - strike "Brown Noise" but leave "Brownian Motion"
  • page 447 - entry for Continuous, for "not discrete" read "not strictly discrete"
  • page 475 - Richard E. Nisbet and Paul R. Thagard are missing from the list of authors of Induction
  • page 487 - removed index entry for T. H. Hardy
  • page 488 - added index entry for T. H. Huxley

Special thanks to Dave Burk, Simon Evans, Barney Welsh, and Danny Yee for pointing out most of the errors below. All of these typos will be corrected in the third printing (which has not been scheduled yet).

  • page xvii - in last paragraph, for "Marilyn and Stanford Apseloff" read "Lynn, Marilyn and Stanford Apseloff".
  • page xviii - strike last paragraph.
  • page *2 - in the fourth line, for "here" read "her".
  • page 114 - for "sequence becomes 0, 1 + i, -7 + i7" read "sequence becomes 0, 1 + i, 1 + i3, -7 + i7".
  • page 130 - first paragraph in Section 9.1, for "ther" read "other".
  • page 146 - for "r = 88 / 10" read "r = 88 / 100".
  • page 165 - in second paragraph of Section 11.2, for "year", read "years".
  • page 176 - in second paragraph, for "provides" read "provide".
  • page 182 - in third paragraph of Section 12.1, for "affect", read "effect".
  • page 185 - in label of x-axis of Figure 12.1, for "Shark Population", read "Fish Population".
  • page 209 - in line 3, for "output", read "outer".
  • page 234 - for "have k(2r + 1) entries" read "have (k - 1)(2r + 1) + 1 entries".
  • page 234 - for "10^50" read "9^46".
  • page 252 - in fifth paragraph, for "a single gene", read "a single gene product".
  • page 292 - in last paragraph, swap "Chicken" and "Stag Hunt" in the following sentence: "For instance, if we take the ordering from the Prisoner's Dilemma, DC > CC > DD > CD, and swap the first two payoffs, we end up with Chicken. Similarly, swapping the last two payoffs turns the Prisoner's Dilemma into Stag Hunt."
  • page 310 - in Figure 18.2, all "s(t)"'s should be "a(t)"'s.
  • page 317 - for "version" read "versions".
  • page 318 - for "far more simpler" read "far simpler".
  • page 319 - in Table 18.2 for "1/(1+exp(x))" read "1/(1+exp(-x))".
  • page 320 - last paragraph, for "Figure 18.7" read "Figure 18.6".
  • page 331 - last paragraph, for "chaoticly" read "chaotically".
  • page 345 - in first line, for "twice as fit" read "more fit by a constant factor".
  • page 358 - for "DNA codes protein but protein" read "DNA codes RNA, and RNA codes protein, but protein".
  • page 409 - in last paragraph, for "a manipulate a" read "manipulate a".

Bloopers
  • Jacket: evil gnomes took over the MIT press and listed Barak Pearlmutter as being from the Salk Institute. Actually, he's at the University of New Mexico.

  • Jacket: cover credit is misleading. Corrections to appear on third printing.



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