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Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (08 Edition) by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Does God Play Dice? : the New Mathematics of Chaos (2ND 02 Edition) by Ian Stewart Publisher Comments The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. It also incorporates new information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory. This witty, lucid and engaging... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Essence of Chaos by Edward Lorenz Publisher Comments Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Certainty by Ilya Prigogine Publisher Comments Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Transition to Chaos: Conservative Classical Systems and Quantum Manifestations (Institute for Nonlinear Science) by Linda E. Reichl Publisher Comments This book provides a thorough and comprehensive discussion of classical and quantum chaos theory for bounded systems and for scattering processes. Specific discussions include: • Noether's theorem, integrability, KAM theory, and a definition of chaotic... (read more) Your price: $152.95 New - Hardcover
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Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred Schroeder Publisher Comments “As notable as the book’s broad sweep is the author’s good-natured, humorous presentation.”—Physics Today... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Science of Fractal Images by Heinz Otto Peitgen Publisher Comments This book is based on notes for the course Fractals: Introduction, Basics and Perspectives given by Michael F. Barnsley, Robert L. Devaney, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Dietmar Saupe and Richard F. Voss. The Course was chaired by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and was part... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness by John Briggs Publisher Comments Until recently, such phenomena as the volatility of weather systems, the fluctuation of the shock market, or the random firing of neurons in the brain were considered too "noisy" and complex to be probed by science. But now, with the aid of high-speed... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations by Arne T. Skjeltorp Publisher Comments Many mesoscopic systems display `adaptive' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force. There is a kind of progression in adaptive phenomena, from quantum mesoscopics to complex,... (read more) Your price: $179.25 New - Hardcover
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Fractional-Order Nonlinear Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (Nonlinear Physical Science) by Ivo Petras Publisher Comments "Fractional-Order Nonlinear Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation" presents a study of fractional-order chaotic systems accompanied by Matlab programs for simulating their state space trajectories, which are shown in the illustrations in the book... (read more) Your price: $150.50 New - Hardcover
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Chaos in Dynamical Systems by Edward Ott Publisher Comments In the new edition of this classic textbook Ed Ott has added much new material and has significantly increased the number of homework problems. The most important change is the addition of a completely new chapter on control and synchronization of chaos.... (read more) Your price: $115.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Gallery of Chua Attractors by Eleonora Bilotta Publisher Comments A gallery of nearly 900 "chaotic attractors" ???????????? some generated by Chua's physical circuit, the majority through computer simulation of the circuit and its generalizations ???????????? are illustrated as 3D color images, time series and fast... (read more) List Price $255.00 Your price: $235.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Chaos Theory Tamed by Garnett Williams Publisher Comments This text aims to bridge the gap between non-mathematical popular treatments and the distinctly mathematical publications that non- mathematicians find so difficult to penetrate. The author provides understandable derivations or explanations of many key... (read more) List Price $67.95 Your price: $48.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science by Heinz Otto Peitgen Publisher Comments For almost 15 years chaos and fractals have been riding a wave that has enveloped many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in its power, creativity and expanse. Traveling far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $37.00 Used - Hardcover
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Curves and Fractal Dimension by Claude Tricot Publisher Comments Written for mathematicians, engineers, and researchers in experimental science, as well as anyone interested in fractals, this book explains the geometrical and analytical properties of trajectories, aggregate contours, geographical coastlines, profiles... (read more) List Price $113.95 Your price: $37.00 Used - Hardcover
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Studies in Economic Theory #11: Optimization and Chaos by Mukul Majumdar Publisher Comments The book begins with an introduction to some of the basic concepts and results on chaotic dynamical systems. Next it turns to a detailed self-contained summary of the literature on discounted dynamic optimization. The first two chapters are of particular... (read more) Your price: $210.25 New - Trade Paper
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Chaos: A Very Short Introduction by Leonard Smith Publisher Comments One of the most exciting and fast-growing areas of mathematics and physical science explained for the non-mathematician.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Randomness Through Computation: Some Answers, More Questions by Hector (edt) Zenil Synopsis This review volume consists of an indispensable set of chapters written by leading scholars, scientists and researchers in the field of Randomness, including related subfields specially but not limited to the strong developed connections to the... (read more) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines-from biology to physics, computing to meteorology-than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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