What happened with Approximate Entropy was that Chaos could be useful, it just wasn’t as useful as a pure information theory derived solution. Wouldn’t surprise me if that were true here as well.
Gleick gives Mandelbrot credit for this, but it wouldn’t be the first major misrepresentation I’ve found in the Gleick book.
I know someone’s gonna ask so let me share the most powerful misrepresentation I’ve found so far: Gleick talks about the Chaos Cabal at UC Santa Cruz creating the visualization tools for Chaos all on their own. In The Chaos Avante Garde, Professor Ralph Abraham describes himself as a supporter of the students (could be misleading) and, separately, founding the Visual Math Project. VMP started with tools for undergrads but he claims ownership of chaos work within a few years. I don’t know if the Chaos Cabal literally worked under Abraham, but it sure seems likely the presence of VMP affected their own visualization tools.
What happened with Approximate Entropy was that Chaos could be useful, it just wasn’t as useful as a pure information theory derived solution. Wouldn’t surprise me if that were true here as well.
Gleick gives Mandelbrot credit for this, but it wouldn’t be the first major misrepresentation I’ve found in the Gleick book.
I know someone’s gonna ask so let me share the most powerful misrepresentation I’ve found so far: Gleick talks about the Chaos Cabal at UC Santa Cruz creating the visualization tools for Chaos all on their own. In The Chaos Avante Garde, Professor Ralph Abraham describes himself as a supporter of the students (could be misleading) and, separately, founding the Visual Math Project. VMP started with tools for undergrads but he claims ownership of chaos work within a few years. I don’t know if the Chaos Cabal literally worked under Abraham, but it sure seems likely the presence of VMP affected their own visualization tools.