Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Teaching Company (2008), DVD, 24 lectures, 12 hours, 154 pages
Description
Chaos theory," according to Dr. Steven Strogatz, Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, "is the science of how things change." It describes the behavior of any system whose state evolves over time and whose behavior is sensitive to small changes in its initial conditions.
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
1598034502 / 9781598034509
Local notes
[01] The chaos revolution [02] The clockwork universe [03] From clockwork to chaos [04] Chaos found and lost again [05] The return of chaos [06] Chaos as disorder: the butterfly effect [07] Picturing chaos as order: strange attractors [08] Animating chaos as order: iterated maps [09] How systems turn chaotic [10] Displaying how systems turn chaotic [11] Universal features of the route to chaos [12] Experimental tests of the new theory [13] Fractals: the geometry of chaos [14] The properties of fractals [15] A new concept of dimension [16] Fractals around us [17] Fractals inside us [18] Fractal art [19] Embracing chaos: from tao to space travel [20] Cloaking messages with chaos [21] Chaos in health and disease [22] Quantum chaos [23] Synchronization [24] The future of science