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This chapter describes Chazelle’s concept of “Natural Algorithms” amid other uses of “natural” in mathematics and computer science. A theorem of his about equilibria in Nature exposes some of the ideas.
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Lipton, R.J., Regan, K.W. (2013). Bernard Chazelle: Natural Algorithms. In: People, Problems, and Proofs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41422-0_36
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