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Author Hadlock, Charles Robert.

Title 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.

Imprint [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 207 p. : ill., charts.
Series Spectrum series
MAA spectrum.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
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."
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Disasters -- Mathematical models.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0883855798
9780883855799
9781614445142 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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