Images of a Complex World : the Art and Poetry of Chaos (With Cd-Rom).

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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Main Author: Chapman, Robin
Other Authors: Sprott, Julien Clinton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005.
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505 0 |a Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Dynamical Systems; Dynamical Systems; Simple or Complex?; Linear or Nonlinear?; Chapter 2 Viewing Dynamics; Where Do We Go Next? (Time Series); Chapter 3 Where It All Ends; Attractors; Stillness (Fixed Points); Endless Repetition (Limit Cycles); Doughnuts and Inner Tubes (Tori); Strange Attractors (Chaos); Chapter 4 Routes to Chaos; Fork in the Road (Bifurcations); Skipping a Beat (Period-doubling); On the Edge of Chaos; Chapter 5 Images of Chaos; Chaos or Noise?; Strange Attractors; Stretching and Moving (Iterated Function Systems). 
505 8 |a Escaping the Attractor (Generalized Julia Sets)Chapter 6 Chaos and Predictabitity; Time's Arrow; The Butterfly Effect (Sensitive Dependence); Chapter 7 Truth and Beauty; Fractals; Mirror images; Flower Petals; Appendix for the Mathematically Inclined; Index of Images; Test Your Understanding; For Further Reading; Contents of the CD-ROM; About the Authors; Index. 
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