Homework
Please draw a rough concept map to illustrate graphically which of the following words are similar in meaning and which are dissimilar (please spend no more than 1 hr on this). This is a concept inventory you can revisit at the end of the course to see whether any ideas have changed.
* Laplacian
* Newtonian
* Modern
* Chaos
* Determinism
* Randomness
* Stochasticity
* Predictability
* Chance
* Probability
* Correlation
* Cause
* Effect
Supplemental reading
If you enjoyed the preceding exercise (?!), you might want to browse the following criticisms of Prigogine's Order Out of Chaos. However, because this is lengthy and breaks the flow of attention, please postpone reading until after the upcoming purple box unit.
C. Shalizi http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/prigogine.html
J. Bricmont (skim first ~20 pages) http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/chao-dyn/9603009
