TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Leonard A. TI - Chaos: a very short introduction SN - 9780192853783(pbk) U1 - 003.857 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Chaotic behavior in systems KW - Popular works N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index; Chapter 1: The Emergence of Chaos-------- Chapter 2: Exponential Growth, Nonlinearity, Common Sense-------- Chapter 3: Chaos in Context: Determinism, Randomness and Noise------- Chapter 4: Chaos in Methematical Models-------- Chapter 5: Fractals, Strange Attractors and Dimensions------- Chapter 6: Quantifying the Dynamics of Uncertainty-------- Chapter 7: Real Numbers, Real Observations and Computers------- Chapter 8: Sorry, Wrong Number: Statistics and Chaos-------- Chapter 9: Predictability: Does Chaos Constrains our Forecasts?------- Chapter 10: Applied Chaos: Can we see through our Models?------- Chapter 11: Philosophy in Chaos--------- ER -