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Chaos

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Structural Stability in Physics

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‘Chaos’ is the canonic translation into Greek of the Hebrew term ‘tohu-wa-bohu’ found in the first chapter of the Bible. ‘Wa’ means ‘and,’ and ‘bohu’ certainly means the same thing as ‘tohu.’ However, since the word appears only once in the Bible and there is no continuous oral tradition, one can only guess what ‘tohu’ means. A possible English analogue is ‘topsy(-and-)turvy.’ A mathematical redefinition thus seems admissible.

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Rössler, O.E. (1979). Chaos. In: Güttinger, W., Eikemeier, H. (eds) Structural Stability in Physics. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67363-4_26

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