Once I spoked to a mathematician about mathematics and he asked me what was my favourite area in Maths. My answer was "Chaos Theory" and he said this is not a discipline in Mathematics.
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1this is correct there is no such thing as chaos theory. – Nov 16 '11 at 11:47
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1"This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion." – Gerry Myerson Nov 16 '11 at 11:52
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5I don’t object to chaos theory as an informal term for the study of chaotic dynamical systems and related topics. – Brian M. Scott Nov 16 '11 at 12:07
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For some listing of areas of mathematics:
- The Mathematics Subject Classification is jointly maintained by the American Mathematical Society and the Zbl. A more lay-friendly guided tour of the classification scheme is available here.
- Another classification scheme is that used by the mathematics arXiv. The administrators there explain why they don't use MSC.
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