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I am convinced that chaos, along with its many associated concepts -strange attractors, basin boundaries, period-doubling bifurcations and the like — can readily be understood and relished by readers who have no special mathematical or other scientific background... (E. Lorenz, in Foreword to The Essence of Chaos)
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Eriksson, K., Johnson, C., Estep, D. (2004). Lorenz and the Essence of Chaos. In: Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05800-8_5
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