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200 10$aImages of a complex world$b[electronic resource] $ethe art and poetry of chaos /$fRobin Chapman, Julien Clinton Sprott ; foreword by Clifford A. Pickover
210   $aRiver Edge, NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (195 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a981-256-401-2 
311   $a981-256-400-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aForeword; 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)
327   $aEscaping 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; Index
330   $aWith 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 on
606   $aDynamics
606   $aChaotic behavior in systems
606   $aFractals
606   $aNonlinear theories
606   $aMathematics in art
606   $aMathematics in literature
606   $aDigital art
615  0$aDynamics.
615  0$aChaotic behavior in systems.
615  0$aFractals.
615  0$aNonlinear theories.
615  0$aMathematics in art.
615  0$aMathematics in literature.
615  0$aDigital art.
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