Images of a Complex World : The Art and Poetry of Chaos (With Cd-Rom).
Title:
Images of a Complex World : The Art and Poetry of Chaos (With Cd-Rom).
Author:
Chapman, Robin.
ISBN:
9789812775115
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Index.
Abstract:
With 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 only three simple equations for strange attractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39 key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to test understanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000 images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created, the book has a Other Cliff Pickover, author of A Passion for Mathematics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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