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Title: garbage in - garbage out
Review: This book is great intelelctual achievement, but is methodologically flawed: if you assemble some differential equations and some data that generate coefficients used in these equations, then differential equations will generate SOME solution. However, interesting question is how solution changes if coefficients change slightly? This analysis is known as "sensitivity analysis", and as exampels show, majority of dynamical systems show tremendous sensitivity towards coefficients and initial conditions.It is OK that 30 years ago authors didn't perform such analysis. But now, there are many formal mathematical tools and software tools for performing such analysis, and 30 years was enough time to do this."Naked" solution of differential equations without sensitivity analysis have the same reliability and predictive power as predictions generated by crystal ball.
