usable deterministic fractal structure search / n-dimensional systems / differential equations systems / equilibrium solutions / telephone receivers / infinite energy / suggested applications / precise solutions / qualitative such applications / nonlinear oscillatory systems / e-> / chaotic systems / /
Movie
The Butterfly Effect / /
Organization
Brussels School / Russian School / Warwick University / /
Person
van der Pol / Alexander M. Lyapunov / Bernard Malgrange / James A. Yorke / Claude Lévi-Strauss / René Thom / Tien-Yien Li / Henri Poincaré / Benoit B. Mandelbrot / Steve Smale / Floris Takens / Andrei N. Kolmogorov / George D. Birkhoff / Georg Cantor / Edward Lorenz / E. Christopher Zeeman / Felix Hausdorff / Vladimir I. Arnol / John N. Mather / Ott / Robert M. May / Lewis Fry Richardson / Arthur Cayley / Lorenz Attractor / Lev Landau / /
Position
Farmer / mathematician / model / stock market model / mathematical ecologist / /
CHAPTER 2 THE MATHEMATICS OF DISCONTINUITY AOn the plane of philosophy properly speaking, of metaphysics, catastrophe theory cannot, to be sure, supply any answer to the great problems which torment mankind. But it fav