Subject: Maxima by Example: Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11
From: dlakelan
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:42:07 -0700
Sheldon Newhouse wrote:
> At least from my point of view (and that of many others), interest in
> non-linear dynamics grows and grows and grows.
> After all, most of the problems in non-linear dynamics are far from
> solved, and new ideas and relationships with other branches of science
> are appearing all the time. If anyone said that broad interest in
> nonlinear dynamics peaked around 1995, then, IMO, that person was making
> a rather narrow definition of the term "broad interest" or a narrow
> definition of "nonlinear dynamics" or both.
If your definition of broad interest is "everyone wants a strange
attractor on their T-shirt" then I think 1995 is close to the right
peak. If you mean the number of people actually doing some kind of
nonlinear dynamics in real applications... then that is certainly still
growing, but it's become more of a tool than a topic in itself, and
certainly isn't in the popular mind the way it was when Gleick's "Chaos"
and Bass' "The Eudaemonic Pie" was published..