Chaos '87
Author: Minh Duong-Van
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 658
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Haunted by Chaos
Author: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-07-09
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0674987004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn American Interest Top Book of the Year “Khan has unraveled the mystery of Chinese grand strategy, showing why insecurity lies at the root of Chinese power projection... Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.” —Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and fragmented. Today it is a force on the global stage, and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Drawing on an array of sources, Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought not only to protect China from aggression but also to ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras. The dramatic variations in China’s modern history have obscured the commonality of purpose that binds the country’s leaders. Analyzing the calculus behind their decision making, Khan explores how they wove diplomatic, military, and economic power together to keep a fragile country safe in a world they saw as hostile. Dangerous and shrewd, Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so, while the caustic, impatient Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern world. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao served as cautious custodians of the Deng legacy, but the powerful and deeply insecure Xi Jinping has shown an assertiveness that has raised both fear and hope across the globe. For all their considerable costs, China’s grand strategies have been largely successful. But the country faces great challenges today. Its population is aging, its government is undermined by corruption, its neighbors are arming out of concern over its growing power, and environmental degradation threatens catastrophe. A question Haunted by Chaos raises is whether China’s time-tested approach can respond to the looming threats of the twenty-first century.
The Years of Chaos
Author: Reine Backoulas-Zenta
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2011-06-24
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1462023622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about a young woman who lose every dream she once had for a man. As the result of her loss, pains and sufferings, she begins to walk her mind back to her past, into the memories of her childhood. There she wanted to understand the cause behind her every loss. Throughout her recollections she began to relive and experience again every pain and joy as if life was going back to the beginning in order for her to obtain another chance to fix and retrieve everything she lost.
Chaotic Signals in Digital Communications
Author: Marcio Eisencraft
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 1466557230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChaotic Signals in Digital Communications combines fundamental background knowledge with state-of-the-art methods for using chaotic signals and systems in digital communications. The book builds a bridge between theoretical works and practical implementation to help researchers attain consistent performance in realistic environments. It shows the possible shortcomings of the chaos-based communication systems proposed in the literature, particularly when they are subjected to non-ideal conditions. It also presents a toolbox of techniques for researchers working to actually implement such systems. A Combination of Tutorials and In-Depth, Cutting-Edge Research Featuring contributions by active leading researchers, the book begins with an introduction to communication theory, dynamical systems, and chaotic communications suitable for those new to the field. This lays a solid foundation for the more applied chapters that follow. A Toolbox of Techniques—Including New Ways to Tackle Channel Imperfections The book covers typical chaos communication methods, namely chaotic masking, chaotic modulation, chaotic shift key, and symbolic message bearing, as well as bidirectional communication and secure communication. It also presents novel methodologies to deal with communication channel imperfections. These tackle band-limited channel chaos communication, radio channels with fading, and the resistance of a special chaotic signal to multipath propagations. In addition, the book addresses topics related to engineering applications, such as optical communications, chaotic matched filters and circuit implementations, and microwave frequency-modulated differential chaos shift keying (FM-DCSK) systems. Insights for Both Theoretical and Experimental Researchers Combining theory and practice, this book offers a unique perspective on chaotic communication in the context of non-ideal conditions. Written for theoretical and experimental researchers, it tackles the practical issues faced in implementing chaos-based signals and systems in digital communications applications.
Church of Chaos
Author: Gen Griffin
Publisher: Gen Griffin
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1311365427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPilar has never been lucky. Raised in a world where rules are not meant to be broken and zombies are waiting around every corner, Pilar never expected that she'd find herself pitted up against the very people she'd trusted to keep her safe. Determined to find her parents, she's been forced to accept help from the most unlikely source she can think of. Seth is the High Priest of the Church of Chaos and while he claims to be willing to help Pilar, she's entirely aware that he has his own agenda. Thrust unexpectedly into a world where no one can be trusted, Pilar has to learn to think on her feet as she's faced with friends who have turned into enemies, enemies who have turned into friends, prophecies that may or may not be true and the ever present threat of being eaten by zombies.
Encounters with Chaos and Fractals
Author: Denny Gulick
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 146655875X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and updated, this second edition provides an accessible introduction to both chaotic dynamics and fractal geometry for readers with a calculus background. This edition contains new and expanded material on fractals that illustrates how to obtain computer renderings of them and covers Julia and Mandelbrot sets. It also includes a substantial number of new exercises at the end of each section and MATLAB programs in the appendix, with selected solutions at the back of the book.
A World in Chaos
Author: Frank A. Pellegrino
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1452004897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a compilation of poems that this author had written since 2001. He had written on many subjects, such as inspirational verses, love and marriage, poems to our men and women serving in the military, past and present. With the world in chaos and liberalism on the upsurge, this author had expanded his writes on many controversial subjects. This author being retired and having retired from the New York State Parks Commission was a lover of nature. He wrote about the beauty of the earth and his love for gardening. Holidays had always been special family times and this author wrote about each holiday as he remembered growing up as a child and the importance of each whether fun holidays or spiritual Holy Days. This author had always liked to write puns or play around with words and phrases. Many poems of roses are red and violets are blue have come into play with his challenges in writing. This author had written many poems for the Starlite Caf Internet and many times had taken the Ten Word Challenges that had been offered to him. This author enjoyed writing about his pet beagle, his neighbors and special people that had touched his life. He also enjoyed writing poems of laughter and ones that would interest children. This is a book that this author hoped would reach the hearts and minds of people of all ages.
Chaotic Maps
Author: Goong Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-05-31
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 3031024036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book consists of lecture notes for a semester-long introductory graduate course on dynamical systems and chaos taught by the authors at Texas A&M University and Zhongshan University, China. There are ten chapters in the main body of the book, covering an elementary theory of chaotic maps in finite-dimensional spaces. The topics include one-dimensional dynamical systems (interval maps), bifurcations, general topological, symbolic dynamical systems, fractals and a class of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems which are induced by interval maps, plus rapid fluctuations of chaotic maps as a new viewpoint developed by the authors in recent years. Two appendices are also provided in order to ease the transitions for the readership from discrete-time dynamical systems to continuous-time dynamical systems, governed by ordinary and partial differential equations. Table of Contents: Simple Interval Maps and Their Iterations / Total Variations of Iterates of Maps / Ordering among Periods: The Sharkovski Theorem / Bifurcation Theorems for Maps / Homoclinicity. Lyapunoff Exponents / Symbolic Dynamics, Conjugacy and Shift Invariant Sets / The Smale Horseshoe / Fractals / Rapid Fluctuations of Chaotic Maps on RN / Infinite-dimensional Systems Induced by Continuous-Time Difference Equations
Mathematical Methods in Biology
Author: J. David Logan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-08-17
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0470525878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA one-of-a-kind guide to using deterministic and probabilistic methods for solving problems in the biological sciences Highlighting the growing relevance of quantitative techniques in scientific research, Mathematical Methods in Biology provides an accessible presentation of the broad range of important mathematical methods for solving problems in the biological sciences. The book reveals the growing connections between mathematics and biology through clear explanations and specific, interesting problems from areas such as population dynamics, foraging theory, and life history theory. The authors begin with an introduction and review of mathematical tools that are employed in subsequent chapters, including biological modeling, calculus, differential equations, dimensionless variables, and descriptive statistics. The following chapters examine standard discrete and continuous models using matrix algebra as well as difference and differential equations. Finally, the book outlines probability, statistics, and stochastic methods as well as material on bootstrapping and stochastic differential equations, which is a unique approach that is not offered in other literature on the topic. In order to demonstrate the application of mathematical methods to the biological sciences, the authors provide focused examples from the field of theoretical ecology, which serve as an accessible context for study while also demonstrating mathematical skills that are applicable to many other areas in the life sciences. The book's algorithms are illustrated using MATLAB®, but can also be replicated using other software packages, including R, Mathematica®, and Maple; however, the text does not require any single computer algebra package. Each chapter contains numerous exercises and problems that range in difficulty, from the basic to more challenging, to assist readers with building their problem-solving skills. Selected solutions are included at the back of the book, and a related Web site features supplemental material for further study. Extensively class-tested to ensure an easy-to-follow format, Mathematical Methods in Biology is an excellent book for mathematics and biology courses at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It also serves as a valuable reference for researchers and professionals working in the fields of biology, ecology, and biomathematics.
Chaos in Automatic Control
Author: Wilfrid Perruquetti
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1351836811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChaotic behavior arises in a variety of control settings. In some cases, it is beneficial to remove this behavior; in others, introducing or taking advantage of the existing chaotic components can be useful for example in cryptography. Chaos in Automatic Control surveys the latest methods for inserting, taking advantage of, or removing chaos in a variety of applications. This book supplies the theoretical and pedagogical basis of chaos in control systems along with new concepts and recent developments in the field. Presented in three parts, the book examines open-loop analysis, closed-loop control, and applications of chaos in control systems. The first section builds a background in the mathematics of ordinary differential and difference equations on which the remainder of the book is based. It includes an introductory chapter by Christian Mira, a pioneer in chaos research. The next section explores solutions to problems arising in observation and control of closed-loop chaotic control systems. These include model-independent control methods, strategies such as H-infinity and sliding modes, polytopic observers, normal forms using homogeneous transformations, and observability normal forms. The final section explores applications in wireless transmission, optics, power electronics, and cryptography. Chaos in Automatic Control distills the latest thinking in chaos while relating it to the most recent developments and applications in control. It serves as a platform for developing more robust, autonomous, intelligent, and adaptive systems.
