Background
Chua, Leon O. was born on June 28, 1936.
(One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic ...)
One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic systems are completely predictable-given the initial condition and the equations describing a system, the behavior of the system can be predicted 1 for all time. The discovery of chaotic systems has eliminated this viewpoint. Simply put, a chaotic system is a deterministic system that exhibits random behavior. Though identified as a robust phenomenon only twenty years ago, chaos has almost certainly been encountered by scientists and engi neers many times during the last century only to be dismissed as physical noise. Chaos is such a wide-spread phenomenon that it has now been reported in virtually every scientific discipline: astronomy, biology, biophysics, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, plasmas, physics, and even the social sci ences. It is no coincidence that during the same two decades in which chaos has grown into an independent field of research, computers have permeated society. It is, in fact, the wide availability of inex pensive computing power that has spurred much of the research in chaotic dynamics. The reason is simple: the computer can calculate a solution of a nonlinear system. This is no small feat. Unlike lin ear systems, where closed-form solutions can be written in terms of the system's eigenvalues and eigenvectors, few nonlinear systems and virtually no chaotic systems possess closed-form solutions.
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(One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic ...)
One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic systems are completely predictable-given the initial condition and the equations describing a system, the behavior of the system can be predicted 1 for all time. The discovery of chaotic systems has eliminated this viewpoint. Simply put, a chaotic system is a deterministic system that exhibits random behavior. Though identified as a robust phenomenon only twenty years ago, chaos has almost certainly been encountered by scientists and engi neers many times during the last century only to be dismissed as physical noise. Chaos is such a wide-spread phenomenon that it has now been reported in virtually every scientific discipline: astronomy, biology, biophysics, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, plasmas, physics, and even the social sci ences. It is no coincidence that during the same two decades in which chaos has grown into an independent field of research, computers have permeated society. It is, in fact, the wide availability of inex pensive computing power that has spurred much of the research in chaotic dynamics. The reason is simple: the computer can calculate a solution of a nonlinear system. This is no small feat. Unlike lin ear systems, where closed-form solutions can be written in terms of the system's eigenvalues and eigenvectors, few nonlinear systems and virtually no chaotic systems possess closed-form solutions.
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(Professor Chua's classic pioneering work on nonlinear net...)
Professor Chua's classic pioneering work on nonlinear network theory. Dr. Chua received the prestigeous IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchoff award in 2004 for his research and brilliant insights into the fundamentals of nonlinear network theory. This 949 page 1st edition has now become quite scarce, becoming in fact quite a collectible.
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Chua, Leon O. was born on June 28, 1936.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mapua Institute of Technology, 1959. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1964.
Doctorate (honorary), Ecole Polytechnic Lausanne, Switzerland, 1983. Doctorate (honorary), University Tokushima, Japan, 1984. Doctorate (honorary), Technology University Dresden, Germany, 1992.
Doctorate (honorary), Technology University Budapest, Hungary, 1994. Doctorate (honorary), University Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1995. Doctorate (honorary), University Frankfurt, Germany, 1996.
Doctorate (honorary), Technology University Iasa, Romanua, 1997. Doctorate (honorary), University Catania, Italy, 2000. Doctorate (honorary), Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im.
Stanisława Staszica University of Science Technology, Krakow, Poland, 2003.
Assistant professor Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1964-1967, associate professor, 1967-1970. Professor University California, Berkeley, since 1970. Consultant various electronic industries.
Miller Research professor Miller Institute, 1976.
(One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic ...)
(One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic ...)
(This text serves as a replacement for Desoer-Kuh's well-k...)
(Professor Chua's classic pioneering work on nonlinear net...)
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize award 1967, W.R.G. Baker Prize award 1973, Centennial medal 1985, Guillemin-Cauer prize 1985, Neural Networks Pioneer award 2000, Gustav Kirchhoff award 2005). Member European Academy of Sciences (elected foreign member 1997), Society Circuits and Systems Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (editor transactions on Circus and Systems 1973-1975, president 1976).
Married Diana Chua; children: Amy Lynn, Michelle Ann, Katrin Faye, Cynthia Mae.