Six sources of collapse a mathematician's perspective on how things can fall apart in the blink of an eye /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hadlock, Charles Robert
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2012.
Series:MAA spectrum.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Predicting unpredictable events
  • Group behavior: crowds, herds, and video games
  • Evolution and collapse: game playing in a changing world
  • Instability, oscillation, and feedback
  • Nonlinearity: invitation to chaos and catastrophe
  • It's all about networks
  • Putting it all together: looking at collapse phenomena in "6-D."