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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London :
UniPress Books Ltd. by arrangement with the MIT Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Clockwork and chaos
- Newton's intractable motions and runaway feedback
- Weather worries and chaotic butterflies
- Strange attractors and immeasurable distances
- Stock market crashes and super hits
- Harnessing chaos
- Complexity and emergence.