Definitions and explanations courtesy of (and much thanks to),
Jim Crutchfield and Tom Humphrey

Bifurcation

George Birkhoff

Cellular Automata

Catastrophe Theory

Chaos

Complexity

Dynamical Analysis

Balthazar Van der Pol

ENIAC

Fractals

Kurt Godel

Michele Henon

A. N. Kolmogorov

Edward Lorentz

Non Linear Dynamics

Benoit Mandelbrot

Sante Fe Institute

Shannon's Communication Theory

State Space

Strange Attractor

Turing



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