WS-2022 - Final Notes, Preparation for Final Exam

Final Notes and Material

The Lectures and Script section are missing information on the Turing Mechanism, Networks and Fractals. Below is some information that will help you review what we covered in class.

Pattern Formation

In this pdf:

Notes on pattern formation

you can find a discussion on the topic. The pdf contains a lot more information, much of which is irrelevant for the final exam.

Complex Network

You should review the Complexity Explorables that we discussed in class that involve networks. Notably the explorables:

1. “Facebooked Flu Shots”
2. “Knitworks”
3. “Clustershuck”

Here’s a long pdf, an older set of lecture notes on Complex Networks:

Notes on complex networks

I highlighted the topics in the table of contents that we covered in class and that may be on the exam.

Fractals

Here’s a long script on complex systems. It captures a lot of information that you don’t need to know and that we didn’t cover in class. It does however capture the idea behind fractal dimensions, marked in the table of contents.

Notes on complex systems (including fractals)

Make sure you know about the following Complexity Explorables:

1. “Hokus Fractus!”
2. “Particularly Stuck”

Sample final exams from previous years

can be found here: This is a blog post from a year ago containing links to the exams.

Note: there are problems on these exams on topics that we didn’t cover this year, so don’t worry about it.