Esther Stillman Thelen, a developmental psychologist who applied dynamic systems theory, popularly called “chaos theory,” to the study of how babies learn to walk and interact, has died. She was 63.
Dynamical systems and chaos theory provide a rigorous mathematical framework to describe, analyse and predict the evolution of systems over time. These fields study how simple deterministic rules can ...
Bifurcation theory in discrete dynamical systems provides a rigorous framework for analysing qualitative changes in system behaviour as parameters vary. In these systems, subtle modifications of ...