Notes

Chapter 7: Mechanisms in Programs and Nature


Section 4: Chaos Theory and Randomness from Initial Conditions

Billiards Fluttering History of chaos theory Information content of initial conditions Instability [and chaos theory] Randomness in the solar system Recognizing chaos Simple case [of three-body problem] Spinning and tossing [as sources of randomness] Three-body problem

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]