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Complexity Explorer is an online learning platform from the Santa Fe Institute offering courses, tutorials, and interactive simulations on complexity science and chaos theory, including nonlinear dynamics, agent-based modeling, and networked systems.

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ChaosBook.org

Free graduate-level online textbook led by Predrag Cvitanović at Georgia Tech, with accompanying video lectures. It develops periodic-orbit theory and cycle expansions, teaching readers to compute averages, escape rates and spectra of chaotic deterministic and quantum systems from their unstable periodic orbits.

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Wolfram MathWorld

MathWorld is an online mathematics encyclopedia from Wolfram Research offering detailed, browsable articles on topics across the math spectrum, including algebra, geometry, calculus, and number theory. Each entry includes definitions, theorems, formulas, diagrams, worked examples, and links to further reading.

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Explore attractors in nonlinear dynamics and chaos with Steven Strogatz's insightful course. Perfect for learning complex systems!

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (3rd Edition)

Standard undergraduate textbook on nonlinear dynamics, covering flows on the line and circle, bifurcations, phase plane analysis, limit cycles, the Lorenz equations, chaos, fractals and strange attractors, with applications from physics, biology and engineering. Readers learn to analyse nonlinear systems qualitatively and geometrically.

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Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

Undergraduate textbook on chaotic dynamics, assuming calculus, linear algebra and basic differential equations. Readers work through one- and two-dimensional maps, Lyapunov exponents, fractals, chaotic attractors, bifurcations and the Lorenz system, with computer experiments that build hands-on intuition for each idea.

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The Logistic Map and the Route to Chaos: From the Beginnings to Modern Applications

Springer collection of specialist chapters tracing the logistic map from Verhulst's population model to period-doubling bifurcations, universality and chaos, with applications in physics, chemistry, biology and economics. Gives readers a research-level view of how a simple nonlinear equation generates chaotic behaviour.

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