MM1: Lecture #1, 7:30pm, Monday 17 April 2000
Math theories of chaos and bifurcation
What are they and why?

Brief explanations of some key words:
Math
The study of space-time patterns.
Musings
The math which can be said is not the true math, so we try to muse about it (with some orthodox symbolics).
Chaos
Chaos theory, a new branch of math, empowered by the computer revolution, especially, computer graphics.
Divination
Probabilistic determination of the near future.
Dr. Calimari
AKA models for morphogenesis.
Stairway to Chaos
A three-level map of chaos theory.
Function
First excursion into mathematical orthodoxy, in the special case of one-dimensional spaces: ordinary graphs.

Revised Thu 20 April 2000 by Ralph