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The notion of chaos is so deeply integrated into all fields of science, culture, and other human activities, that it has become fundamental. It is quite probable that each person has his or her own intuitive concept of what is chaos. The first cosmogonical views which explained the origin of the world contained the notion of chaos. For example, the ancient Greeks believed that chaos appeared before everything and then only afterwards the world appeared.
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Bolotin, Y., Tur, A., Yanovsky, V. (2017). Introduction. In: Chaos: Concepts, Control and Constructive Use. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42496-5_1
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