03696nam 2200733Ia 450 991078222320332120230617002914.01-281-92792-99786611927929981-277-511-0(CKB)1000000000550732(EBL)1214522(SSID)ssj0000299320(PQKBManifestationID)11224317(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299320(PQKBWorkID)10238097(PQKB)11738427(MiAaPQ)EBC1214522(WSP)00000822 (Au-PeEL)EBL1214522(CaPaEBR)ebr10698971(CaONFJC)MIL192792(OCoLC)854972526(EXLCZ)99100000000055073220050728d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImages of a complex world[electronic resource] the art and poetry of chaos /Robin Chapman, Julien Clinton Sprott ; foreword by Clifford A. PickoverRiver Edge, NJ World Scientificc20051 online resource (195 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-256-401-2 981-256-400-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Dynamical Systems; Dynamical Systems; Simple or Complex?; Linear or Nonlinear?; Chapter 2 Viewing Dynamics; Where Do We Go Next? (Time Series); Chapter 3 Where It All Ends; Attractors; Stillness (Fixed Points); Endless Repetition (Limit Cycles); Doughnuts and Inner Tubes (Tori); Strange Attractors (Chaos); Chapter 4 Routes to Chaos; Fork in the Road (Bifurcations); Skipping a Beat (Period-doubling); On the Edge of Chaos; Chapter 5 Images of Chaos; Chaos or Noise?; Strange Attractors; Stretching and Moving (Iterated Function Systems)Escaping the Attractor (Generalized Julia Sets)Chapter 6 Chaos and Predictabitity; Time's Arrow; The Butterfly Effect (Sensitive Dependence); Chapter 7 Truth and Beauty; Fractals; Mirror images; Flower Petals; Appendix for the Mathematically Inclined; Index of Images; Test Your Understanding; For Further Reading; Contents of the CD-ROM; About the Authors; IndexWith the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: Robin Chapman's poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world, associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott's full-color computer art generated from billions of versions of onDynamicsChaotic behavior in systemsFractalsNonlinear theoriesMathematics in artMathematics in literatureDigital artDynamics.Chaotic behavior in systems.Fractals.Nonlinear theories.Mathematics in art.Mathematics in literature.Digital art.003/.857Chapman Robin S1556573Sprott Julien C42637MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782223203321Images of a complex world3819356UNINA