Chaos : a very short introduction / Leonard A. Smith.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Leonard A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Very short introductions ; 159.
Subjects:
Chaotic behavior in systems > Popular works.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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