Methods of computer simulations

Methods of computer simulations by Romuald Kotowski is an introduction to the very big and fascinating world of computer simulations. The idea of this book is to show how wide is the spectrum of methods which can be used for the every specific subject under consideration. In this book the following subjects are discussed: mathematical modelling versus computer simulations, fundamentals of mathematics, an example of the physical theory, theoretical assumptions on the behaviour of that physical systems, cellular automata, deterministic chaos, fundamentals of mechanics the model of the motion of the planets around the sun is presented, many notions of the motion of material points and solid rigid bodies are reminded, many real systems exhibit stochastic (random) behaviour, fractals, linear programming, genetic algorithms. The book is intended for students of computer simulation classes conducted in English.