Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:5302194 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5302194 N2 - This coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious aboutideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of tenyears of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, it features multiple ways of knowing: RobinChapman’s poems of everyday experience of change in a complex world,associated metaphorically with Julien Clinton Sprott’s full-color computer artgenerated from billions of versions of only three simple equations for strangeattractors, Julia sets, and iterated function systems; his definitions of 39key terms; a mathematical appendix; and even a multiple-choice quiz to testunderstanding. Accompanied by a CD-ROM of the poet reading 13 poems and 1,000images of chaos art from which slide shows can be generated and 100 high-resolution posters created. With a foreword by Cliff Pickover, author of APassion for Mathematics. SN - 9812564012 TI - Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos PB - World Scientific Publishing Company KW - art KW - chaos AU - Sprott, Julien AU - Chapman, Robin PY - 2005/08/30/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/9812564012 ER -