The Mathematics of Chaos

<p>They told us in school that every problem has a solution<br>that if you follow the steps show your work<br>the answer reveals itself at the bottom of the page.<br>But no one mentioned the problems that split into more problems<br>the equations that change while you're solving them<br>the variables that refuse to stay still.<br>This book is about those equations-<br>the mathematics of a life that won't simplify<br>where the smallest change in initial conditions<br>rewrites everything that follows.<br>Here we don't solve for x.<br>We learn to live with it.</p>