Behavior Quote by Robert L. Devaney

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations…

— Sophus Lie

General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Poincaré’s phase space viewpoint has proved to be so useful that nowadays you’ll find it in every area of science – and in areas…

— Terry Pratchett

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic;…

— Anonymous

“Given an approximate knowledge of a system’s initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system.”

— James Gleick

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems…

— Terence McKenna

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

— Simon Newcomb

You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.

— Michael Crichton

The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical…

— Joseph Lovering

“systems theory or, as some people might call it, complexity theory? The simplest explanation is that it is the study of interactions.”

— Rich Jolly

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

— Vladimir Arnold