Title Statements
- Full title :Chaos : the science of predictable random motion / Richard Kautz.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 369 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm +
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199594580, 0199594589, 9780199594573, 0199594570
- oclc:on1034965870
- LC Classification:QA279.2 .K38 2011
- Dewey Decimal:003/.857
Table of Contents
pt. I. Introduction. 1. Chaos everywhere -- pt. II. Dynamics 2. Galileo Galilei -- birth of a new science -- 3. Isaac Newton -- dynamics perfected -- 4. Celestial mechanics -- the clockwork universe -- 5. The pendulum -- linear and nonlinear -- 6. Synchronization -- the Josephson effect -- pt. III. Random motion. 7. Chaos forgets the past -- 8. Chaos takes a random walk -- 9. Chaos makes noise -- pt. IV. Sensitive motion. 10. Edward Lorenz -- butterfly effect -- 11. Chaos comes of age -- 12. Tilt-a-whirl -- Chaos at the amusement park -- 13. Billiard-ball chaos -- atomic disorder -- 14. Iterated maps -- chaos made simple -- pt. V. Topology of motion. 15. State space -- going with the flow -- 16. Strange attractor -- 17. Fractal geometry -- 18. Stephen Smale -- horseshoe map -- 19. Henri Poincaré -- topological tangle -- pt. VI. Conclusion. 20. Chaos goes to work.
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