Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Calculating Pi and Beyond: Searching Order in Disorder with Simulation.- Chapter 2: Markov Chain: A Peek into the Future.Chapter 3: Multi-Armed Bandits: Probability Simulation and Bayesian Statistics.- Chapter 4: Balls in 2D Box: A Simplest Physics Engine.- Chapter 5: Percolation: Threshold and Phase Change.- Chapter 6: Queuing System:  How Stock Trades are Made.- Chapter 7: Rock, Scissor and Paper: Multi-Agent Simulation.- Chapter 8: Matthew Effect and Tax Policy: Why the Rich Keeps Getting Richer.- Chapter 9: Misinformation Spreading: Simulation on a Graph (Centrality, Networkx).- Chapter 10: Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm.

About the Author

Ron Li is a long-term and enthusiastic educator. He has been a researcher, data science instructor, and business intelligence engineer. Ron published a highly rated (4.5-star rating out of 5 on amazon) book titled Essential Statistics for Non-STEM Data Analysts. He has also authored/co-authored academic papers, taught (pro bono) data science to non-STEM professionals, and gives talks at conferences such as PyData. 

Aiichiro Nakano is a Professor of Computer Science with joint appointments in Physics & Astronomy, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Biological Sciences, and at the Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations at the University of Southern California. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1989. He has authored more than 360 refereed articles in the areas of scalable scientific algorithms, massive data visualization and analysis, and computational materials science.