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Article: Chaos Theory
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Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory (CT) is a mathematical theory about nonlinear dynamical systems that exhibit exquisite sensitivity to initial conditions, eventual unpredictability, and other intriguing features despite the inevitably deterministic character of mathematical equations. CT has been used to model processes in diverse fields, including physics (quantum chaos, nonequilibrium thermodynamics), chemistry, ecology, economics, physiology, meteorology, zoology, and the neurosciences.
Basic research in mathematics and physics during the twentieth century produced CT. Felix Hausdorff (1869
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1942) made essential contributions in mathematics when he created spaces with fractional ...
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