TY  - BOOK
AU  -  	Leonard A Smith
TI  - Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
T2  -  	Very short introductions, 159. 
SN  - 9780192853783
U1  - 003.857 SMI-C 
PY  - 2007///
CY  -  	Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  -  	      Chaotic behavior in systems -- Popular works.     Differentiable dynamical systems.     Chaotic behavior in systems.
N1  -  	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
N2  -   Chaos: A Very Short Introduction shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems. It uses accessible maths and physics (replacing complex equations with simple examples like pendulums, railway lines, and tossing coins) to explain the theory, and points to numerous examples in philosophy and literature (Edgar Allen Poe, Chang-Tzu, and Arthur Conan Doyle) that illuminate the problems. The beauty of fractal patterns and their relation to chaos, as well as the history of chaos, and its uses in the real world and implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction.  Keywords: computer, dimensions, ensemble, exponential growth, infinitesimal, model, noise, series, statistics, time, transient
ER  -