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Chaos
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e stable in their average behavior than linear systems. Even in the face of outside noise and disturbances a nonlinear system soon returns to its same old chaotic pattern.
Smale only found out about Lorenz’s work later and he was surprised that a meteorologist had anticipated the mathematics of chaos ten years before him. When people began connecting Lorenz’s and Smale’s work it paved the way for a new generation of chaos specialists who were fascinated by the richness and complexity that simple deterministic systems can create.
Animal populations behave like nonlinear dynamical systems.
Nonlinear dynamical systems aren’t just a pet project of mathematicians and physicists. As Lorenz showed when he studied the weather nonlinear systems are fundamental to nature.
Animal populations for example change in a nonlinear dynamical way. The subfield of biology that studies how they behave over time is called ecology – and it was one of the first fields to connect its findings to chaos