Abstract
Study of the dynamics of chaos began in 1899 with the three-body problem (nonintegrable system) of Poincaré. However, not until recently have random and unpredictable solutions - chaotic orbits - come to be widely understood as universal phenomena in nonlinear dynamical systems. As we understand it now, chaos can be thought of as the main cause of the diversity that we see displayed in Nature’s perpetually changing panorama.
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Mori, H., Kuramoto, Y. (1998). Introduction. In: Dissipative Structures and Chaos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80376-5_8
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