Still, no one could quite agree on the word itself. Philip Holmes, a white-bearded mathematician and poet from Cornell by way of Oxford: The complicated, aperiodic, attracting orbits of certain (usually low-dimensional) dynamical systems. Hao Bai-Lin, a physicist in China who assembled many of the historical papers of chaos into a single reference volume: A kind of order without periodicity. And: A rapidly expanding field of research to which mathematicians, physicists, hydrodynamicists, ecologists and many others have all made important contributions. And: A newly recognized and ubiquitous
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