There are numerous articles demonstrating that these diverse, sometimes arcane tools from other disciplines are in fact just alternative methods for talking about probabilities. In some cases, the mathematics developed in these other disciplines provides just the right tools for manipulating the probabilities understood as energies, entropies, or whatever. When appropriate we will point you to articles providing the necessary connections and equivalences. Several disciplines have worked out graphical languages that capture many of the qualitative aspects of dynamical systems. In the next installment, we explore graphical models in more detail.
Cellular automata are special cases of dynamical systems corresponding to finite state machines.
The notebook TimeSeries.m contains examples of time series generated by dynamical systems. This book shows how Mathematica can be used to solve problems in the applied sciences.