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Karey Pohn

2 min

A Bit About Archetypes

Van Eenwyk (1997) talks about chaos theory as it applies to ideas found Jung’s Analytical Psychology. He reminds us that part of Jung’s gen

Karey Pohn

4 min

Fascinating Fractals

Fractal Dimension

Getting back to the coastline example, paradoxically, when you use a finer measurement scale, the length of the coastline increases, so not

Karey Pohn

2 min

Fascinating Fractals

Self-Similarity Across Scale

Fractals are self-similar across scale, they look the same, and their details are repeated at different scales or descending levels of magni

Karey Pohn

2 min

A Crash Course on Chaos

Fascinating Fractals

Fractal is a term coined in 1975 by Benoit Mandelbrot in to denote configurations that transcend traditional numerical categories. Like opt

Karey Pohn

3 min

A Crash Course on Chaos

The Attraction of Attractors

Strange attractors are not the only kind of attractors, but they are by far the most interesting. Other attractors are easier to describe a

Karey Pohn

2 min

A Crash Course on Chaos

Taffy Pulling Apart

Nonlinear iteration can be pictured as a taffy puller or a baker kneading bread dough. Indeed, mathematicians call what happens when nonlin

Two Roads in a Yellow Wood—The Perils of Bifurcation and SDIC

Karey Pohn

4 min

A Crash Course on Chaos

Two Roads in a Yellow Wood—The Perils of Bifurcation and SDIC

If you have read Robert Frost’s Poem “The Road Not Taken” (1916), then you actually know a lot about bifurcation and sensitive dependence o

Karey Pohn

3 min

A Crash Course on Chaos

Here We Go Again—Iteration

Chaos or nonlinear dynamics can paradoxically be explained by very simple equations, called nonlinear equations, which Briggs and Peat (1989

Karey Pohn

2 min

Chaotic Beginnings

The Birth of A Science

Like so many other relevant trends, chaos theory had its beginning around the turn of the Twentieth Century with Henri Poincaré in the 1890.

Myth and Cutting Edge Science Agree Again

Karey Pohn

6 min

Chaotic Beginnings

Myth and Cutting Edge Science Agree Again

Many ancient peoples believed that the universe came from a primordial state of chaos or nothingness. For the Greeks, a la Hesiod, this pri

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