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Publication
Codice (2008), 212 pages
Description
This book provides a complete understanding of chaotic dynamics in maths, physics, and the real world, with an explanation of why it is important and how it differs from the idea of randomness. The author draws on certain physical systems and phenomena, for example the weather forecast, and the role of chaos in gambling.
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I could have known: this booklet was way above my head. And that is mainly because the author almost exclusively focuses on the phenomenon of chaos in physical systems (weather, climate, warming water etc.). By consequence there’s a lot of mathematics and statistics involved. For my purpose (the
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Original publication date
2007
ISBN
8875781133 / 9788875781132