Chaos Avant-garde, The: Memoirs Of The Early Days Of Chaos Theory
Author:   Ralph Abraham (The Visual Math Inst, Usa) ,  Yoshisuke Ueda (Kyoto Univ, Japan)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   39
ISBN:  

9789810244040


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   04 January 2001
Format:   Hardback
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A reference on the history of chaos theory, told by the pioneers themselves. It also provides a historical introduction to the concepts. There are eleven contributions, and six of them are published here for the first time - two by Steve Smale, three by Yoshisuke Ueda, and one each by Ralph Abraham, Edward Lorenz, Christian Mira, Floris Takens, T.Y. Li and James A. Yorke, and Otto E. Rossler.

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Author:   Ralph Abraham (The Visual Math Inst, Usa) ,  Yoshisuke Ueda (Kyoto Univ, Japan)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   39
ISBN:  

9789810244040


ISBN 10:   9810244045
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   04 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"On how I got started in dynamical systems 1959-1962, S. Smale; finding a horseshoe on the beaches of Rio, S. Smale; strange attractors and the origin of chaos, Y. Ueda; my encounter with chaos, Y. Ueda; reflections on the origin of the broken-egg chaotic attractor, Y. Ueda; the chaos revolution - a personal view, R. Abraham; the butterfly effect, E. Lorenz; I. Gumowski and a Toulouse research group in the ""prehistoric"" times of chaotic dynamics, C. Mira; the turbulence paper of D. Ruelle & F. Takens, F. Takens; exploring chaos on an interval, T.Y. Li and J.A. Yorke; chaos, hyperchaos and the double-perspective, O.E. Rossler."

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