Six sources of collapse

Hadlock, Charles Robert.

Six sources of collapse a mathematician's perspective on how things can fall apart in the blink of an eye / [electronic resource] : Charles R. Hadlock. - [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2012. - xiv, 207 p. : ill., charts. - Spectrum series . - MAA spectrum. .

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Disasters--Mathematical models.


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