The chaos avant-garde
Subtitle: memories of the early days of chaos theory
By: editors, Ralph Abraham, Yoshisuke Ueda.
Contributors: Abraham, Ralph.; Ueda, Yoshisuke, 1936-
Series: World Scientific series on nonlinear science. Series A,; vol. 39; World Scientific series on nonlinear science.; v. 39.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Singapore; River Edge, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems -- Research -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. On How I Got Started in Dynamical Systems 1959-19621; title: Steve Smale; title: 2. Finding a Horseshoe on the Beaches of Rio7; title: Steve Smale; title: 3. Strange Attractors and the Origin of Chaos23; title: Yoshisuke Ueda; title: 4. My Encounter with Chaos57; title: Yoshisuke Ueda; title: 5. Reflections on the Origin of the Broken-Egg Chaotic Attractor65; title: Yoshisuke Ueda; title: 6. The Chaos Revolution: A Personal View81; title: Ralph Abraham; title: 7. The Butterfly Effect91; title: Edward Lorenz; title: 8. I. Gumowski and a Toulouse Research Group in the; title: "Prehistoric" Times of Chaotic Dynamics95; title: Christian Mira; title: 9. The Turbulence Paper of D. Ruelle and F. Takens199; title: Floris Takens; title: vii; title: 10. Exploring Chaos on an Interval201; title: T. Y Li and James A. Yorke; title: 11. Chaos, Hyperchaos and the Double-Perspective209; title: Otto E. Rissler; title: Sources221.