Brian Clegg

Everyday Chaos: The Mathematics of Unpredictability, from the Weather to the Stock Market

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780262539692
• ISBN-10: 0262539691
• Artikelnr.: 58699121

Autorenporträt

Brian Clegg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction...6
Clockwork and chaos....8
Newton's intractable motions and runaway feedback.....54
Weather worries and chaotic butterflies....126
Strange attractors and immeasurable distances....153
Stock market crashes and super hits....183
Harnessing chaos.....210
Complexity and emergence....238
Welcome to chaos.....250
Further reading.....252
Index.....254
Acknowledgments....256