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What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.

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To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.

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We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.

John Casti

John Casti

John Casti

Born: June 16, 1943 (age 81)

Bio: John L. Casti is an author, mathematician, and entrepreneur.

Known for:

X-Events: The Collapse of Everything (2012)
PARADIGMS LOST (1989)
The Cambridge Quintet (1998)
Five Golden Rules (1996)

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