Valiant, Leslie.
New York : Basic Books, c2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
• Ecorithms — Prediction and adaptation — The computable: not everything that can be defined can be computed — Mechanistic explanations of nature : what might we look for? — The learnable : how can one draw general lessons from particular experiences? — The evolvable : how can complex mechanisms evolve from simpler ones? — The deducible : how can one reason with imprecise concepts? — Humans as ecorithms — Machines as ecorithms : why is artificial intelligence difficult to achieve? — Questions.
• Provides a model of how effective behavior can be learned even in a world as complex as our own, shedding new light on human nature.

Subjects:

• Human behavior — Mathematical models.
• Algorithms.
• Nature — Mathematical models.
• Mathematics in nature.

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