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Readership: General readers, high-school and undergraduate students, and practising scientists who want a quick and easily accessible introduction to chaos theory.
Richard Kautz, Formerly of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA
"Kautz's [Chaos] functions at the level of Ruelle's [Chance and Chaos] but is more focused and compete. It brings a thorough and fresh approach to the task. The writing is lucid and very engaging ... and the illustrations are uniformly excellent." - James Blackburn, American Journal of Physics
"The book is a famous introduction into the wide field of chaos and provides a very good basis for further studies. It is very useful for many persons: students in engineering, natural sciences, and mathematics or people interested in a better understanding of the nature of chaos. It is highly recommended." - ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
1: Chaos Everywhere 2: Galileo Galilei —- Birth of a New Science 3: Isaac Newton —- Dynamics Perfected 4: Celestial Mechanics —- Clockwork Universe 5: Pendulum —- Linear and Nonlinear 6: Josephson Effect —- Synchronization 7: Chaos Forgets the Past 8: Chaos Takes a Random Walk 9: Chaos Makes Noise 10: Edward Lorenz —- Butterfly Effect 11: Chaos Comes of Age 12: Tilt-A-Whirl —- Chaos at the Amusement Park 13: Billiard-Ball Chaos —- Atomic Disorder 14: Iterated Maps —- Chaos Made Simple 15: State Space —- Going with the Flow 16: Strange Attractor 17: Fractal Geometry 18: Stephen Smale —- Horseshoe Map 19: Henri Poincaré —- Topological Tangle 20: Chaos Goes to Work
