For students with a background in elementary algebra, this book provides a vivid introduction to the key phenomena and ideas of chaos and fractals, including the butterfly effect, strange attractors, fractal dimensions, Julia Sets and the Mandelbrot Set, power laws, and cellular automata. The book includes over 200 end-of-chapter exercises.

For almost ten years chaos and fractals have been enveloping many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in their power, creativity and expanse. Reaching far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the realms of popular culture, they have captured the attention and enthusiasm of a worldwide audience. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the central ideas and concepts, as well as many related topics including, the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Cellular Automata, L-Systems, Percolation and Strange Attractors, and each closes with the computer code for a central experiment. In the two appendices, Yuval Fisher discusses the details and ideas of fractal image compression, while Carl J.G. Evertsz and Benoit Mandelbrot introduce the foundations and implications of multifractals.

The Hardys get a call for help from their friend Phil Cohen: seems his cousin, a project manager at a software company, can’t find Steven Royal, the eccentric designer of the company’s popular Chaos games. Is his disappearance a move in a deadly real-life game?

The “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information (Chicago Tribune). For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us. With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is “a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of physics” by a writer who has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the author of Time Travel: A History and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Publishers Weekly).

Fans of the award-winning and visually stunning video game can see Cuphead, Mugman, and friends like never before in this original, illustrated middle-grade novel. Join them on their adventure as they make merry mischief in the vibrant and topsy-turvy world of the Inkwell Isles! It's a special day on the Inkwell Isles: Elder Kettle's birthday! Yes, sirree, it's a very special day. So Cuphead and Mugman need to find the perfect gift to honor their beloved mentor. But along the way, the brothers and their new friend Ms. Chalice are captivated by the sights and sounds of the carnival that just rolled into town. Despite Elder Kettle's warning that the attraction is filled with liars and thieves, the trio gets reeled in. At the carnival, the friends are bamboozled and burgled by enemies, old and new. Will they escape the chaos and get their gift before it's too late? Includes over 20 never-before-seen illustrations drawn by Studio MDHR's Lance Miller that feature hidden items for an interactive treasure hunt! Cuphead in Carnival Chaos is the first book in an original series and perfect for players of Cuphead, and readers of Hello Neighbor, Bendy and the Ink Machine, and Five Nights at Freddy's. © 2020 StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Cuphead(TM), the Cuphead(TM) logo, StudioMDHR(TM) and the StudioMDHR(TM) logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. throughout the world.

Algorithmic sound composition using coupled cellular automata / Jaime Serquera and Eduardo R. Miranda -- Efficient large-scale forcing in finite-difference simulations of steady isotropic turbulence / Ryo Onishi, Yuya Baba and Keiko Takahashi -- Rendering statistical significance of information flow measures / Angeliki Papana and Dimitris Kugiumtzis. Complexity theory and physical unification : from microscopic to macroscopic level / G.P. Pavlos [und weitere] -- Regular variation, Paretian distributions, and the interplay of light and heavy tails in the fractality of asymptotic models / Dinis D. Pestana, Sandra M. Aleixo and J. Leonel Rocha -- Tools for investigation of dynamics of DC-DC converters within Matlab/Simulink / Dmitry Pikulin -- Chaos as compositional order / Eleri Angharad Pound -- Beta(p, q)-Cantor sets - determinism and randomness / J. Leonel Rocha, Sandra M. Aleixo and Dinis D. Pestana -- Predicting chaos with second method of Lyapunov / Vladimir B. Ryabov -- Analysis of homoclinic bifurcation in Duffing oscillator under two-frequency excitation : peculiarity of using Melnikov method in combination with averaging technique / Vladimir Ryabov and Kenta Fukushima -- Exploring life expectancy limits : first exit time modeling, parameter analysis and forecasts / Christos H. Skiadas and Charilaos Skiadas -- Composing chaotic music from the letter m / Anastasios D. Sotiropoulos -- On the timbre of chaotic algorithmic sounds / Dimitrios A. Sotiropoulos, Anastasios D. Sotiropoulos and Vaggelis D. Sotiropoulos -- The rainbow effect on composing chaotic algorithmic music / Vaggelis D. Sotiropoulos -- A highly chaotic attractor for a dual-channel single-attractor, private communication system / Banlue Srisuchinwong and Buncha Munmuangsaen -- Manifestation of chaos in collective models of nuclei / Pavel Stransky [und weitere] -- Importance of the chaos for computational processes of collective intelligence in social structures / Tadeusz (Ted) Szuba -- Complex signal generators based on capacitors and on piezoelectric loads / Horia-Nicolai L. Teodorescu and Victor P. Cojocaru -- Drift waves' synchronization by using an external signal. The stabilization of a chaotic plasma turbulence / C.L. Xaplanteris and E. Filippaki -- Chaos game technique as a tool for the analysis of natural geomorphological features / G. Zibret and T. Verbovsek -- Dynamics of a steel turning process / Grzegorz Litak and Rafal Rusinek

The Chaos Cookbook: A Practical Programming Guide discusses the use of chaos in computer programming. The book is comprised of 11 chapters that tackle various topics relevant to chaos and programming. Chapter 1 reviews the concept of chaos, and Chapter 2 discusses the iterative functions. Chapters 3 and 4 cover differential and Lorenz equations. Chapter 5 talks about strange attractors, while Chapter 6 deals with the fractal link. The book also discusses the Mandelbrot set, and then covers the Julia sets. The other fractal systems and the cellular automata are also explained. The last chapter discusses practical chaos. The book will be of great use to professionals, students, and hobbyist programmers who have an interest with the chaos systems.