Open AccessIn Search of the Optimal Scumsucking Bottomfeeder
Author(s) -
Brian Hayes
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american scientist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1545-2786
pISSN - 0003-0996
DOI - 10.1511/2003.32.3366
Subject(s) - computer science
Five years ago a column in this series titled "How to Avoid Yourself" described the geometry of paths traced out by a random walker who refuses to set foot in the same place twice. Soon after the article appeared, I received a letter from Mark A. Wilson of the College of Wooster, who pointed out that some of my com puter-generated paths were anticipated by mil lions of years in the fossil record of early life. He referred me to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontol
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