Chaos: A Very Short Introduction By: Leonard Smith [Audiobook]

Author: Leonard Smith
Narrated by: Michael Page

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behavior and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of chaos theory is having fascinating applications in the real world – from technology to global warming, politics, human behavior, and even gambling on the stock market.

Leonard Smith shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems. He uses accessible math and physics (replacing complex equations with simple examples like pendulums, railway lines, and tossing coins) to explain the theory and points to numerous examples in philosophy and literature (Edgar Allen Poe, Chang-Tzu, Arthur Conan Doyle) that illuminate the problems. The beauty of fractal patterns and their relation to chaos, as well as the history of chaos, and its uses in the real world and implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction audiobook.

2.5M	01. Preface.mp3
17M	02. The Emergence of Chaos.mp3
12M	03. Exponential Growth, Nonlinearity, Common Sense.mp3
22M	04. Chaos in Context Determinism Randomness and Noise.mp3
13M	05. Chaos in Mathematical Models.mp3
8.9M	06. Fractals, Strange Attractors, and Dimension(s).mp3
17M	07. Quantifying the Dynamics of Uncertainty.mp3
7.4M	08. Real numbers, Real Observations and Computers.mp3
11M	09. Sorry, Wrong Number Statistics and Chaos.mp3
7.9M	10. Predictability Does Chaos Constrain Our Forecasts.mp3
18M	11. Applied Chaos Can We See Through Our Models.mp3
8.3M	12. Philosophy in Chaos.mp3
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