All students must attend the first class meeting in order to remain in the class. Not open to students who have completed BIOL 101. The Limits of Computation 3 hours 3NS, QPh Twentieth-century science has seen the loss of certainty. Heisenberg contributed the uncertainty principle to physics. This colloquium discusses computational aspects of uncertainty.
Undecidable problems admit no algorithmic solution.
Other procedures become infeasible or chaotic. We'll see ramifications of this phenomenon for the performing and the fine arts, in computing of the more spectacular failures of computer systems, and learn enough programming to understand the concepts. Next offered 1999-2000. For a full course description see the section below, Colloquia Expository Writing 103. The Sense of Time and Place 3 hours 3HU, WRi Time and place are central to our understanding of ourselves and our world, both literally and imaginatively.