Everyday Chaos
The Mathematics of Unpredictability, from the Weather to the Stock Market
London : MIT Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components - the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market - means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world"--Back cover.
Contents:
Clockwork and chaos -- Newton's intractable motions and runaway feedback -- Weather worries and chaotic butterflies -- Strange attractors and immeasurable distances -- Stock market crashes and super hits -- Harnessing chaos -- Complexity and emergence.
ISBN:
0262539691
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MATH Cle | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |