Everyday chaos : the mathematics of unpredictability, from the weather to the stock market / Brian Clegg.

Author: Clegg, Brian, author.

ImprintLondon : UniPress Books Ltd. by arrangement with The MIT Press, [2020]

Description256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note: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.

Note:"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." --Back cover.

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