Table of Contents



    1 Introduction

    2 Chaos in Mythology
        2.1 Chinese Mythology
        2.2 Egyptian Mythology
        2.3 Dragons in Chaos Mythology
        2.4 Vedic Indian Mythology
        2.5 Mesopotamian and Babylonian Mythology
        2.6 Greek Mythology
        2.7 Water in Chaos Mythology

    3 The Forgetting of Chaos Through Scientific Reductionism
        3.1 The birth of Modern Science in Greece
        3.2 From the Renaissance to the Present: Reductionism to Chaos

    4 The Originators of Chaos Theory
        4.1 Henri Poincaré
        4.2 Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou
        4.3 Benoit Mandlebrot
        4.4 Edward Lorenz
        4.5 Robert May

    5 Fields of Application
        5.1 Biology
           5.1.1 Population Modelling
           5.1.2 Chaos Theory as a Modelling Tool
           5.1.3 Genetics
        5.2 Computer Imagery
           5.2.1 Fractals
        5.3 Meteorology
        5.4 Fluid Dynamics
           5.4.1 Leonardo Da Vinci
           5.4.2 Turbulence

    6 Computer Models of Chaos
        6.1 Mathematics and Populations
        6.2 Julia Sets

    7 Conclusions

    Appendix 1: Feedback Loops

    Appendix 2: Iterative Equations

    Appendix 3: Linearity

    Appendix 4: Programme Code

    Bibliography

    Acknowledgements



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