Chaos : a very short introduction /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
159 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=192103 |
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.