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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Chapman, Robin S.
Collectivité auteur: World Scientific (Firm)
Autres auteurs: Sprott, Julien C.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2005.
Sujets:
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Fractals.
Dynamics.
Nonlinear theories.
Mathematics in art.
Mathematics in literature.
Computer art.
Chaos.
Fractales.
Dynamique.
Théories non linéaires.
Mathématiques dans l'art.
Mathématiques dans la littérature.
fractals.
SCIENCE > Chaotic Behavior in Systems.
Chaotic behavior in systems
Computer art
Dynamics
Fractals
Mathematics in art
Mathematics in literature
Nonlinear theories
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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