Index

Allen, Peter 1 31, 1 69 Anderla, George 88, 111, 121 aperiodic behaviour 14-15 25 architecture and chaos 135-6 Arnold, Vladimir 91-3 Arthur, W. Brian 113, 1 65-7 atomic world see quantum physics attractors 45-53, 1 33

see also strange attractors

Batty, Michael 1 28-30 Benard 75-6 bifurcation 64, 79 black body 98-9 Bohr, Niels 1 00 Born, Max 101 brain and chaos 142-3 Broglie, Louis de 101 butterfly effect 54-6

Cantor Set 31 catastrophe theory 1 68 chaos and architecture 135-6 and cities 1 24-34 and complexity 85ff criticized 168-71 described 9, 80, 169 and economics 29, 106- 17 at the edge of 81 -3 first record of 40 history 4 human body 138-45 and nature 151-5 origins 7 and quantum physics 1 02-5 and the solar system 90 theory 5-8, 24-5 weather 40-3, 146-50 chaotic attractors see strange attractors chaotics 88 Chirikov, Boris 53 cities and chaos 1 24-34 climate see weather and chaos

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closed systems 69, 73, 74 complex systems 81

Darwinian theory 86 deterministic chaos 133 systems 12 diminishing returns, law 1 08, 111 disorder 4, 16, 70, 86 dissipative systems 69, 70, 131 Dunning, Anthony 88

economics and chaos 29, 1 06-17

equilibrium 108-11, 113 Einstein 170 enablement 1 22 entropy 72, 86 equilibrium 70, 108-11

far-from-equilibrium system 70-1 Fatou, Pierre 37 feedback 20-1

negative 1 08-9, 149 nonlinear 21 -3, 62 positive 113, 149 Feigenbaum, Mitchell 66-8 Fontowicz, Silvio 157, 159 Forge, Simon 88, 11 9 fractal mathematics 28-39, 1 26-30 fractals 33- 9, 47

in Eastern societies 1 61 human body 38, 138 using 38

Gleick, James 55 gravity 1 9, 23, 93 greenhouse effect 150

heart and chaos 139- 40 Heisenberg, Werner 56 human body 38, 1 38-45

infinity 34 irreversible processes 72-4 lzrailve, Felix 53

Jencks, Charles 136 Julia Set, the 37