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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chapman, Robin
Other Authors: Sprott, Julien Clinton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005.
Subjects:
Dynamics.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Fractals.
Nonlinear theories.
Mathematics in art.
Mathematics in literature.
Computer art.
fractals.
Chaotic behavior in systems
Computer art
Dynamics
Fractals
Mathematics in art
Mathematics in literature
Nonlinear theories
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Table of Contents:
  • 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).
  • 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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