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Chaos : a very short introduction /
Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. This Very Short Introduction draws in philosophy, literature, and accessible maths to e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Very short introductions ;
159. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The emergence of chaos
- Exponential growth, nonlinearity, common sense
- Chaos in context: determinism, randomness, and noise
- Chaos in mathematical models
- Fractals, strange attractors, and dimension(s)
- Quantifying the dynamics of uncertainty
- Real numbers, real observations, and computers
- Sorry, wrong number: statistics and chaos
- Predictability: does chaos constrain our forecasts?
- Applied chaos: can we see through our models?
- Philosophy in chaos.