5/12/2023 0 Comments Chaos gleick![]() Only a few, that is, understood how nonlinear nature is in its soul. Only a few were able to remember that the solvable, orderly, linear systems were the aberrations. When people stumbled across such things-and people did-all their training argued for dismissing them as aberrations. Nonlinear systems with real chaos were rarely taught and rarely learned. They did not display sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Textbooks showed students only the rare non-linear systems that would give way to such techniques. Confronted with a nonlinear system, scientists would have to substitute linear approximations or find some other uncertain backdoor approach. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The solvable systems are the ones shown in textbooks. ![]()
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