Imagination and Rigor Essays on Eduardo R. Caianiello’s Scientific Heritage /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Termini, Settimo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2006.
• Subjects: Physics.; Computer science.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Physics, general.; Computer Science, general.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The aim of this Volume of scientific essays is twofold. From one side, by remembering the scientific figure of Eduardo R. Caianiello, it aims at focusing his outstanding contributions - from theoretical physics to cybernetics - which after so many years still represent occasion of innovative paths t...

Table of Contents:

• Pattern Discovery in the Crib of Procrustes
• Close Encounters With Far Ideas
• Remarks on the Semantics of “Information”
• Simulation Models of Organism Behavior: Some Lessons from Precybernetic and Cybernetic Approaches
• Caianiello and Neural Nets
• Computability, Computation, and the Real World
• Structure, Combinatorics, and Complexity of “Words”
• Quantum Field Theory and Renormalization Theory in the Early Scientific Activity of Eduardo R. Caianiello
• The Renormalization Group from Bogoliubov to Wilson
• Caianiello’s Maximal Acceleration. Recent Developments
• Modeling Single Neuron Activity in the Presence of Refractoriness: New Contributions to an Old Problem
• Cosmological Implications of Caianiello’s Quantum Geometry
• Imagination and Rigor: Their Interaction Along the Way to Measuring Fuzziness and Doing Other Strange Things
• Rational vs Reasonable
• Eduardo.