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The study of systems which respond disproportionately (nonlinearly) to initial conditions or perturbing stimuli. Nonlinear systems may exhibit chaos which is classically characterized as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Chaotic systems, while distinguished from more ordered periodic systems, are not random. When their behavior over time is appropriately displayed (in phase space), constraints are evident which are described by strange attractors. Phase space representations of chaotic systems, or strange attractors, usually reveal fractal (FRACTALS) self-similarity across time scales. Natural, including biological, systems often display nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
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- Non-linear Dynamics
- Dynamics, Non-linear
- Dynamics, Nonlinear
- Non linear Dynamics
- Non-linear Dynamic
- Nonlinear Dynamic
- Chaos Theory
- Models, Nonlinear
- Non-linear Models
- Chaos Theories
- Model, Non-linear
- Model, Nonlinear
- Models, Non-linear
- Non linear Models
- Non-linear Model
- Nonlinear Model
- Nonlinear Models
- Theories, Chaos
- Theory, Chaos
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a math principle applied to theoret models
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- Mathematics (1974-1993)
- Models, Biological (1970-1993)
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- National Library of Medicine. Nonlinear Dynamics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017711. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017711
- Nonlinear Dynamics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_dynamics
- Nonlinear Dynamics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1985198