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Estimating Lyapunov exponents in chaotic time series with locally weighted regression : dissertation / by Lu, Zhan-Qian.; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Department of Statistics.(CARDINAL)149563;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-134).
Subjects: Lyapunov exponents.; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Time-series analysis.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Celestial encounters : the origins of chaos and stability / by Diacu, Florin,1959-2018.(CARDINAL)395633; Holmes, Philip,1945-(CARDINAL)752059;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Subjects: Celestial mechanics.; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Many-body problem.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Chaos [videorecording] / by Strogatz, Steven H.(Steven Henry)(CARDINAL)757770; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1. lecture 1. The chaos revolution -- lecture 2. The clockwork universe -- lecture 3. From clockwork to chaos -- lecture 4. Chaos found and lost again -- lecture 5. The return of chaos -- lecture 6. Chaos as disorder--the butterfly effect -- lecture 7. Picturing chaos as order--strange attractors -- lecture 8. Animating chaos as order--iterated maps -- lecture 9. How systems turn chaotic -- lecture 10. Displaying how systems turn chaotic -- lecture 11. Universal features of the route to chaos -- lecture 12. Experimental tests of the new theory --Part 2. lecture 13. Fractals--the geometry of chaos -- lecture 14. The properties of fractals -- lecture 15. A new concept of dimension -- lecture 16. Fractals around us -- lecture 17. Fractals inside us -- lecture 18. Fractal art -- lecture 19. Embracing chaos--from tao to space travel -- lecture 20. Cloaking messages with chaos -- lecture 21. Chaos in health and disease -- lecture 22. Quantum chaos -- lecture 23. Synchronization -- lecture 24. The future of science.Taught by: Professor Steven Strogatz, Cornell University.Chaos theory," according to Dr. Steven Strogatz, Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, "is the science of how things change." It describes the behavior of any system whose state evolves over time and whose behavior is sensitive to small changes in its initial conditions.DVD.
Subjects: Filmed lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Fractals.; Quantum theory.; Space and time.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Nature's patterns : a tapestry in three parts / by Ball, Philip,1962-(CARDINAL)207976;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301) and index.[V. 1.] Shapes : The shapes of things: pattern and form -- Lessons of the beehive: building with bubbles -- Making waves: stripes in a test tube -- Written on the body: hiding, warning, and mimicking -- Rhythms of the wild: crustal communities -- How does your garden grow?: the mathematics of a daisy -- Unfolding the embryo: the formation of body plans -- Appendices : 1. Soap-film structures -- 2. Oscillating chemical reaction -- 3. Chemical waves in the BZ reaction -- 4. Liesegang bands --[V. 2.] Flow :The man who loved fluids: Leonardo's legacy -- Patterns downstream: ordered flows -- On a roll: how convection shapes the world -- Riddle of the dunes: when grains get together -- Follow your neighbour: flocks, swarms, and crowds -- Into the maelstrom: the trouble with turbulence -- Appendices : 1. Bénard convection -- 2. Grain stratification in a Makse cell --[V. 3.] Branches : A winter's tale: the six-pointed snowflake -- Tenuous monsters: shapes between dimensions -- Just for the crack: clean breaks and ragged ruptures -- Water ways: labyrinths in the landscape -- Tree and leaf: branches in biology -- Web worlds: why we're all in this together -- Epilogue: The threads of the tapestry: principles of pattern -- Appendix : The Hele-Shaw cell.
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems.; Pattern formation (Biology); Pattern formation (Physical sciences);
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The end of certainty : time, chaos, and the new laws of nature / by Prigogine, I.(Ilya)(CARDINAL)723256; Stengers, Isabelle.(CARDINAL)511498;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Science; Space and time.; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Natural history.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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From certainty to uncertainty : the story of science and ideas in the twentieth century / by Peat, F. David,1938-2017.(CARDINAL)718321;
Quantum uncertainty -- On incompleteness -- From object to process -- Language -- The end of representation -- From clockwork to chaos -- Re-envisioning the planet -- Pausing the Cosmos.
Subjects: Physics; Certainty.; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Physics;
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Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / by Klaas, Brian,1986-author.(CARDINAL)349357;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-305) and index.Changing anything changes everything -- Everything doesn't happen for a reason -- Why our brains distort reality -- The human swarm -- Heraclitus rules -- The storytelling animal -- The lottery of Earth -- Everyone's a butterfly -- Of clocks and calendars -- The emperor's new equations -- Could it be otherwise? -- Why everything we do matters."In Fluke, social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people's neat and tidy version of reality. The book's argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives-and our societies-could be radically different. Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events. Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Klaas provides a fresh look at why things happen-all while providing lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Chance ; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Conduct of life.; Social psychology.; Forecasting.; Causation.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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Chaos and organization in health care / by Lee, Thomas H.(CARDINAL)727413; Mongan, James J.(CARDINAL)563588;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-2610 and index.The problem is chaos -- Chaos -- Progress -- Fragmentation -- The solution is organization -- What does organization in healthcare look like? -- What kind of systems improve healthcare? -- Tightly structured healthcare delivery organizations -- Organizing the mainstream of American medicine -- What can payers, employers, and patients do? -- How do we get there? -- Evolution or revolution? -- Provider change -- Payment change -- Market change -- Accelerating evolution.
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems.; Health care reform; Health facilities; Medical care; Organizational behavior.; Medical care.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Fluke : [sound recording] chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / by Klaas, Brian,1986-author,narrator.(CARDINAL)349357;
Read by the author.If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself? And would you remain blind to the radically different possible world you unknowingly left behind? Here, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people's neat and tidy storybook version of reality. The book's argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives, and our societies, could be radically different. Offering an entirely new lens, the book explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events. How did one couple's vacation cause 100,000 people to die? Does our decision to hit the snooze button in the morning radically alter the trajectory of our lives? And has the evolution of humans been inevitable, or are we simply the product of a series of freak accidents? Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen, all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Self-help publications.; Social psychology.; Causation.; Chance; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Conduct of life.; Forecasting.; Free Will & Determinism Philosophy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Connect the dots / by Calabrese, Keith,author.(CARDINAL)416590;
Ages 8-12.Grades 4-6.Twelve-year-olds Oliver Beane and Frankie Figge are starting middle school in their suburban town of Lake Grove Glen, but from the beginning things seem a little weird, starting with the mysterious girl Matilda Sandoval who seems to know a lot about the boys, and continuing with a series of apparently random events that may not be random at all; somehow it all leads back to Preston Oglethorpe, a former student genius at their school who won the Nobel prize in Physics for his work in applied chaos theory at twenty-eight, and then mysteriously disappeared--and if the boys (and Matilda) can just connect the dots maybe they can figure out who or what is manipulating their lives, and why.750LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Chaotic behavior in systems; Secrecy; Middle schools; Best friends; Gifted persons; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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