Six sources of collapse a mathematician's perspective on how things can fall apart in the blink of an eye - Hadlock, Charles Robert; ebrary, Inc. ([Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, 2012)
Introduction -- Predicting unpredictable events -- Group behavior: crowds, herds, and video games -- Evolution and collapse: game playing in a changing world -- Instability, oscillation, and feedback -- Nonlinearity: invitation to chaos and catastrophe -- It's all about networks -- Putting it all together: looking at collapse phenomena in "6-D."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Disasters -- Mathematical models; Electronic books