Chaos in Easter Island Ecology
Special | 57m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Investigate the mysteries of Easter Island with Clint Sprott.
Clint Sprott, a professor in the Department of Physics at UW-Madison, describes some recent simple mathematical models for the rise and fall of the civilization on Easter Island in the South Pacific. Sprott shows that one of these mathematical models has chaotic solutions, not previously known.
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University Place is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
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Chaos in Easter Island Ecology
Special | 57m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Clint Sprott, a professor in the Department of Physics at UW-Madison, describes some recent simple mathematical models for the rise and fall of the civilization on Easter Island in the South Pacific. Sprott shows that one of these mathematical models has chaotic solutions, not previously known.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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