From building blocks to computers: models and modeling
The game of life: a legendary cellular automaton
Heads or tails: probability of an event
Galton's board: probability and statistics
Twenty questions: probability and information
Snowflakes: the evolution of dynamical systems
The Lorenz butterfly: deterministic chaos
From Cantor to Mandelbrot: self-similarity and fractals
Typing monkeys: statistical linguistics
The bridges to Königsberg: graph theory
Prisoner's dilemma: game theory
Let the best man win: genetic algorithms
Computers can learn: neural networks
Unpredictable individuals: modeling society
Universal computer: the Turing machine
Hal, R2D2, and number 5: artificial intelligence.
