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Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)
- bArray 7y agoI was really hoping for some crazy clone of a Chromebook, like what a Hackintosh is to a Mac, but with some form of chaos. The book is very interesting though :)
- npsomaratna 7y agoI was hoping for the Warhammer 40k type of chaos. Oh well, one can dream ...
- babuskov 7y agoI was hoping to read what's it about here in the comments, without opening the website, but ... For people like me: It's a book about theory of chaos. To quote: > By now, there are also many physics textbooks on "chaos". Most lack depth, and many of them are plain bad, emphasizing pictorial and computer-graphics aspects of dynamics and short changing the student on the theory. That's a pity, as the subject in its beauty and intellectual depth ranks alongside statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, with which it shares many fundamental techniques. The book represents authors' attempt to redress the balance and present the subject as one of the basic cornerstones of the advanced graduate physics curriculum of future
- james_s_tayler 7y agoI was hoping it was going to be a Netflix engineering-as-marketing tactic where they do an extremely deep dive on chaos engineering.
- ralfd 7y agoI was hoping to find a comment like this.
- fyp 7y agoI thought this was going to be about the popsci book with a similar name: Chaos: Making a New Science https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64582.Chaos https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64582.Chaos
- sincerely 7y agounder that standard of "similar", wouldn't basically any book with "Chaos" in the title count?
- fyp 7y agoOriginal submission title was something like Chaosbook (which is also why there is a now nonsensical comment about Chromebook)
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoAh, I loved that book as a teen. Unfortunately I lent it to an ex whom I broke up with before she had returned it and never spoken with eversince. I fondly remember tinkering with a PHP program (that was the only language I knew at the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) to draw the bifurcation diagram of the logistic map which then I used as my desktop background.
- mzanchi 7y ago:) I wrote a couple of tables on Excel v1 that was running on the original Mackintosh we had at home to play around with the same equations.
- gibmeat 7y agoI’ll wait for the audio book narrated by Jeff Goldblum
- ncmncm 7y agoThis book looks really useful: a complete introduction with all the prerequisites, in one place. (I apologize that this comment is not funny.)
- agumonkey 7y agorest assured that your lack of funnness is appreciated :)
- Razengan 7y agoIs "chaos" simply the point where humans lose the ability to keep track of things, or is there a more ..universal definition?
- scottlocklin 7y agoChaos is what happens when the torus in your dynamical phase space breaks up. Or, thought of another way; it's a deterministic process that generates random bit strings (because, no torus/periodic orbits).
- chr1 7y agoThe ability of an observer to keep track of things is not relevant, and even completely computable things like cellular automata can be chaotic [1]. The common definition of chaotic dynamics [2] requires the system to be sensitive to initial conditions, mix the state space, and have dense periodic orbits. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30#Chaos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30#Chaos. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#Chaotic_dynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#Chaotic_dynamics
- hankstenberg 7y agoThat's a perfect answer.
- Razengan 7y agoThanks. I found this to be the most intuitive example (for myself to grok): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum#/media/File:Demonstrating_Chaos_with_a_Double_Pendulum.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum#/media/File:De...
- nexus2045 7y agoMade me think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
- cwingrav 7y ago
- scottlocklin 7y agoCvitanovic's book, and apparently Cvitanovic himself (I've traded an email or two, but he's friends of friends -and seems to always make a big impression in person) is amazing. It's been around in some form or other since I was wrapping up my ph.d. thesis in a related subject, and I remember being mad as hell it didn't exist when I started as it had the most understandable explanations of the Gutzwiller trace formula. The late Dieter Wintgen's papers were also good, but not as didactic, and without so many examples. I should work out all the problem sets in J and publish the results. Seems like a properly impish trolling.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoI've never had a strong incentive to read it, so I have only looked through it, but I love it. I fantasize about writing a book just like it on a subject that I know well.
- selimthegrim 7y agoYes, his book and Ozorio de Almeida’s are the best I’ve found on the subject