Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world - from technology to global warming, politics, human behaviour, and even gambling on the stock market.Leonard Smith shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems. He uses accessible maths and physics (replacing complex equations with simple examples like pendulums, railway lines, and tossing coin…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-157943-1
- EAN: 9780191579431
- Produktnummer: 13934821
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'018 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 halftones and line drawings
Über den Autor
Leonard Smith is Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics at the University of Oxford, where he lectures on nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos.
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