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AnHifilich der 600-Jahrfeier der Ruperto-Carola-Univer sitat Heidelberg und parallel zu den tiber das ganze Jahr verteilten vieWiltigen Aktivitaten, Symposien und Festvor tragen der Universitat entschied der Gemeinderat der Stadt Heidelberg, sich nicht nur mit der "Stadt-Heidelberg-Stif tung" und deren Stiftungskapital von 2 Mio. DM, sondern auch mit einer Vortagsreihe an dem Jubilaumsjahr zu beteili gen. Schien es doch legitim, daB die Stadt, die seit sechs Jahrhunderten mit der Universitat lebt, tiber ihre traditions reichste Einrichtung nachdenken wollte. Als Titel der Vortragsreihe bot...

Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the composition of music.

To illustrate their argument, the authors turn to classic games--backgammon, bridge, and chess--and relate them to physical, biological, and social applications of probability theory and number theory. Further, they have invented, and present here, more than a dozen playable games derived from scientific models for...

This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. It starts with the "strange" physics of matter, including particle physics, atomic physics and quantum mechanics, cosmology, relativity and their consequences (Chapter I), and it continues by describing the properties of material systems that are best understood by statistical and phase-space concepts (Chapter II). These lead to entropy and to the classical picture of quantitative information, initially devoid of value and meaning (Chapter III). Finally, "information space" and dynamics within it...