At risk of simplification, sets of data that result these sort of cool mathematical shapes are known as strange, or chaotic, attractors. So of course, chaos theory started a race among ...

Now Aguilera and his collaborators are complicating the picture. There’s some circumstantial evidence in favor of mathematical chaos. For one thing, despite many decades of work, mathematicians’ ...

In fact the math has a nontechnical name, which is “chaos”. Its technical name is “nonlinear dynamics” but we will not go into that. Lots of things in the world fit the math of chaos and they are said ...

More precisely, this example works to explain a kind of math called chaos theory, which looks at how small changes made to a system’s initial conditions—like the extra gust of wind from a ...

To most people, "chaos" means confusion or randomness, but in mathematics, "mathematical chaos" refers to a deterministic behavior governed by precise nonlinear equations. A system is chaotic when ...

Well, scientists were curious about it too, and have now worked out the mathematical equation that underpins how we navigate sidewalks, and why, collectively, it descends into chaos so quickly.

Last winter, at a meeting in the Finnish wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, a group of mathematicians gathered to contemplate the fate of a mathematical universe. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius ...