Chaotic Behavior category: 161 books
Beyond Coincidence
Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery and Mathematics Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Ever wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning?
Or winning the lottery?
Or meeting someone from Timbuktu with the same middle name as you?
BEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of:
Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon...
The Emergence of Everything
How the World Became Complex
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell, that...
Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1
Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the first volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This important collection presents recent advances in nonlinear dynamics including analytical solutions, chaos in Hamiltonian systems, time-delay, uncertainty, and bio-network dynamics. Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity equips readers to appreciate this increasingly main-stream approach to understanding...
Book of Extremes
Why the 21st Century Isn’t Like the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity...
The Seneca Effect
Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden...
Recurrence Quantification Analysis
Theory and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The analysis of recurrences in dynamical systems by using recurrence plots and their quantification is still an emerging field. Over the past decades recurrence plots have proven to be valuable data visualization and analysis tools in the theoretical study of complex, time-varying dynamical systems...
Recurrence Plots and Their Quantifications: Expanding Horizons
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Recurrence Plots, Grenoble, France, 17-19 June 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The chapters in this book originate from the research work and contributions presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots held in Grenoble, France in June 2015. Scientists from numerous disciplines gathered to exchange knowledge on recent applications and developments in recurrence...
Understanding Complex Urban Systems
Integrating Multidisciplinary Data in Urban Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book is devoted to the modeling and understanding of complex urban systems. This second volume of Understanding Complex Urban Systems focuses on the challenges of the modeling tools, concerning, e.g., the quality and quantity of data and the selection of an appropriate modeling approach. It is...
by Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, Valeri A. Makarov
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This book examines theoretical and applied aspects of wavelet analysis in neurophysics, describing in detail different practical applications of the wavelet theory in the areas of neurodynamics and neurophysiology and providing a review of fundamental work that has been carried out in these fields...
by Andrei Ludu
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The central theme of this book is the extent to which the structure of the free dynamical boundaries of a system controls the evolution of the system as a whole. Applying three orthogonal types of thinking - mathematical, constructivist and morphological, it illustrates these concepts using applications...
by Jakob Löber
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
By establishing an alternative foundation of control theory, this thesis represents a significant advance in the theory of control systems, of interest to a broad range of scientists and engineers. While common control strategies for dynamical systems center on the system state as the object to be...
Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines
Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos...
The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we...