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Index
Prologue
Chaos: Making a New Science (03:55)
The Butterfly Effect
How Two Weather Patters Diverge (0:33)
The Lorenz Attractor (01:02)
Revolution
Life’s Ups and Downs
A Geometry of Nature
The Koch Snowflake (0:45)
Constructing with Holes (01:00)
Strange Attractors
Exposing an Attractor’s Structure (01:09)
Universality
The Experimenter
Images of Chaos
The Mandelbrot Set Emerges (01:06)
The Dynamical Systems Collective
Inner Rhythms
Chaos and Beyond
Afterword
Notes on Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
Los Alamos
I understand you’re
Government program
elements of motion
process rather than state
behavior of cars
That realization
Fifteen years ago
just three things
third great revolution
Relativity eliminated
The cosmologist
The ButterflyEffect
The simulated weather
They were numerical rules
purity of mathematics
would embrace
The basic idea
That’s the kind of rule
Suddenly he realized
small errors proved catastrophic
That first day
We certainly hadn’t
years of unreal optimism
Von Neumann imagined
vast and expensive bureaucracy
Forecasts of economic
suppose the earth
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