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
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