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Record 1 2023-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
DEF

... the study of apparently random or unpredictable behaviour in systems governed by deterministic laws.

CONT

While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, chaos theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, the stock market, our brain states, and so on.

OBS

One effect of chaos theory is popularly known as the butterfly effect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
CONT

[...] la théorie du chaos étudie le comportement des systèmes dynamiques très sensibles aux conditions initiales, un phénomène généralement illustré par l'effet papillon.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Matemáticas
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