The impact of chaos on science and society / edited by Celso Grebogi and James A. Yorke.

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [1997], ©1997.

xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"UNUP-882"--T.p. verso

Chaotic dynamics / Mingzhou Ding, Celso Grebogi, and James A. York -- Chaos and politics: applications of nonlinear dynamics to socio-political issues / David K. Campbell and Gottfried Mayer-Kress -- Is the EEG a strange attractor? Brain stem neuronal discharge patterns and electroencephalographic rhythms / Arnold J. Mandell and Karen A. Selz -- The impact of chaos on mathematics / David Ruelle -- Chaos in neural networks / Kazuyuki Aihara -- The impact of chaos on physics / Mitchell J. Feigenbaum -- Chaos and physics / Hao Bai-lin -- Irreversibility and quantum chaos / Kensuke Ikeda -- Impact of high-dimensional chaos: a further step towards dynamical complexity / Kunihiko Kaneko -- The impact of chaos on biology: promising directions for research / Bruce E. Kendall, W. M. Schaffer, C. W. Tidd, and Lars F. Olsen -- Dynamical disease: the impact of nonlinear dynamics and chaos on cardiology and medicine / Leon Glass -- The impact of chaos on meteorology / Antonio Speranza -- The concept of chaos in the problem of earthquake prediction / V. I. Keilis-Borok -- The impact of chaos on engineering / Steven R. Bishop -- The impact of chaos on economic theory / Michele Boldrin -- Chaos in society: reflections on the impact of chaos theory on sociology / Renate Mayntz -- Strange attractors and the origin of chaos / Yoshisuke Ueda.

Includes bibliographical references and index