Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Six sources of collapse [electronic resource] : a mathematician's perspective on how things can fall apart in the blink of an eye / Charles R. Hadlock.

By: Contributor(s): Series: MAA spectrumPublication details: [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2012.Description: xiv, 207 p. : ill., chartsISBN:
  • 0883855798
  • 9780883855799
  • 9781614445142 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GB5014 .H33 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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."
Item type: eBooks
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.

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."

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Copyright © 2020 Alfaisal University Library. All Rights Reserved.
Tel: +966 11 2158948 Fax: +966 11 2157910 Email: librarian@alfaisal.edu