Science and Mathematics
- any state of confusion or disorder, see disorder
- Randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern or combination
- Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics and physics that deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems
- Chaos (genus), a type of giant amoeba
- Polynomial chaos, an expansion in probability theory, invented by Norbert Wiener
- 19521 Chaos, a Trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt object
- Chaosnet, an early set of network communication protocols
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“Imagination could hardly do without metaphor, for imagination is, literally, the moving around in one’s mind of images, and such images tend commonly to be metaphoric. Creative minds, as we know, are rich in images and metaphors, and this is true in science and art alike. The difference between scientist and artist has little to do with the ways of the creative imagination; everything to do with the manner of demonstration and verification of what has been seen or imagined.”
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