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chaos theory |
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chaos theoryBranch of mathematics that attempts to describe irregular, unpredictable systems - that is, systems whose behaviour is difficult to predict because there are so many variable or unknown factors. Weather is an example of a chaotic system. Chaos theory, which attempts to predict the probable behaviour of such systems, based on a rapid calculation of the impact of as wide a range of elements as possible, emerged in the 1970s with the development of sophisticated computers. First developed for use in meteorology, it has also been used in such fields as economics. |
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Azaceta has rendered this darkly comic scenario even more oppressive by boxing in the refugee with overlapping pattern of lines, grids, and circles that on the one hand delineate a shallow, claustrophobic, representational space, and on the other a flat, chaotic map. |
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