Everyday chaos : the mathematics of unpredictability, from the weather to the stock market /
Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components, the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market, means dealing with two factors, chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
UniPress Books Ltd. by arrangement with the MIT Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components, the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market, means dealing with two factors, chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780262539692 0262539691 |