ABSTRACT
What kinds of processes in the world are susceptible to chaos? Briefly, chaos happens only in deterministic, nonlinear, dynamical systems. (I'll defme "nonlinear" and "dynamical" next. At the end of the book there is a glossary of these and other important terms.) Based on those qualifications, here's an admittedly imperfect but nonetheless reasonable definition of chaos:
Chaos is sustained and disorderly-looking long-term evolution that satisfies certain special mathematical criteria and that occurs in a deterministic nonlinear system.
