/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10842885
A system is said to be a chaotic system if two initial conditions which are arbitrarily close to each other lead to totally uncorrelated outcomes in finite time.

Can /sci/ recommend any good math books to self read or study? I want one that I can take around with me and not be too cumbersome, like on planes and stuff.

I'm a pure math major senior

>>8838545
>Because I despise chemistry. Fucking general chemistry was the bane of my existence.
If you couldn't understand chemistry maybe you should consider liberal arts.

Hello /sci/, i'm an average guy with slightly above average knowledge in science and i'm completely baffled by the double pendulum.

How come the movement is random? If we had two completely identical closed systems with two completely identical double pendulums in each of them, wouldn't the resulting motion be identical? When i'm saying identical, i mean fucking identical - exactly the same molecular structure on both pendulums, same starting positions, same pressure and temperature in the closed system, exact same amount of air e.t.c.

Why is the produced movement still random? Can anybody explain this to me?