Images of a complex world : the art and poetry of chaos /
With the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific Pub. Co.,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Dynamical systems. Simple or complex? Linear or nonlinear?
- ch. 2. Viewing dynamics. Where do we go next? (time series). Have we been here before? (state space)
- ch. 3. Where it all ends. Attractors. Stillness (fixed points). Endless repetition (limit cycles). Doughnuts and inner tubes (tori). Strange attractors (chaos)
- ch. 4. Routes to chaos. Fork in the road (bifurcations). Skipping a beat (period-doubling). On the edge of chaos
- ch. 5. Images of chaos. Chaos or noise? Strange attractors. Stretching and moving (iterated function systems). Escaping the attractor (generalized Julia sets)
- ch. 6. Chaos and predictability. Time's arrow. The butterfly effect (sensitive dependence)
- ch. 7. Truth and beauty. Fractals. Mirror images. Flower petals.