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Zusatztext Richard Kautz has written an excellent text that is suitable for undergraduates and provides the mathematical detail necessary to give a thorough introduction to chaos ... a superb book that presents chaos and chaotic systems so that readers will understand the concepts and understand what is so fascinating about this phenomenon ... I highly recommend this book. Informationen zum Autor Richard Kautz is an engineer and physicist who holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his career at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, he helped develop fundamental quantum standards for both voltage and capacitance. Kautz is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Samuel Stratton Award for measurement science and the Edward Condon Award for scientific writing. Klappentext An exploration of chaos: motion that is paradoxically predictable yet random! aided by elementary mathematics! numerous figures! and computer animations (available on a companion CD). The history! mechanism! and practical consequences of this fascinating phenomenon are explained in terms accessible to a motivated high school student. Zusammenfassung An exploration of chaos: motion that is paradoxically predictable yet random, aided by elementary mathematics, numerous figures, and computer animations (available on a companion CD). The history, mechanism, and practical consequences of this fascinating phenomenon are explained in terms accessible to a motivated high school student. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Chaos Everywhere; 2: Galileo Galilei --- Birth of a New Science; 3: Isaac Newton --- Dynamics Perfected; 4: Celestial Mechanics --- Clockwork Universe; 5: Pendulum --- Linear and Nonlinear; 6: Josephson Effect --- Synchronization; 7: Chaos Forgets the Past; 8: Chaos Takes a Random Walk; 9: Chaos Makes Noise; 10: Edward Lorenz --- Butterfly Effect; 11: Chaos Comes of Age; 12: Tilt-A-Whirl --- Chaos at the Amusement Park; 13: Billiard-Ball Chaos --- Atomic Disorder; 14: Iterated Maps --- Chaos Made Simple; 15: State Space --- Going with the Flow; 16: Strange Attractor; 17: Fractal Geometry; 18: Stephen Smale --- Horseshoe Map; 19: Henri Poincaré --- Topological Tangle; 20: Chaos Goes to Work ...
