The Magic of Attraction (aka Attractors in Dynamical Systems)
Good post on attractors, one of the major concepts in chaos theory. "An attractor is a piece of structure of many systems that appears when you view the systems evolution over time. Speaking informally, an attractor is sort of like a black hole in the phase space: it's a region of the space where if you get sucked into it, you'll never leave." Mark C. Chu-Carroll, Good Math, Bad Math, June 26, 2009. [Link] [Tags: none] [Previous][Next]Comments
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