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Chaos: The Science of Predictable Random Motion
Richard Kautz
Table of Contents
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 Poincare --- Topological Tangle
20. Chaos Goes to Work