feat(v2): propagation-of-chaos animation, README section, notebook sandwich

- examples/animate_propagation_of_chaos.py: 4-panel McKean-Vlasov
  simulator at N in {20, 100, 500, 4000} with reference N=12000;
  bottom panel tracks W_2(mu^N_t, mu_t) on log scale -> visible
  1/sqrt(N) decay (Sznitman 1991).
- examples/propagation_of_chaos.gif (1.6 MB)
- README: new 'Propagation of chaos' subsection under
  Mean-field & agent-based dynamics, with empirical-measure
  formula, k-tuple factorisation and GIF embed.
- examples/notebooks/14_mckean_vlasov.ipynb: sandwich PRE/code/POST
  cells demonstrating W2 ~ 1/sqrt(N) on the same simulator.
  Verified executed: sqrt(N)*W2 ~ 0.7 across N (theoretical const).
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- **`consensus_dynamics(...)`** — synchronous opinion-dynamics consensus on a graph.
- **`solve_mfg_1d_rust(MFGConfig)`** — 1-D mean-field game (HJB ↔ FokkerPlanck fixed-point).
#### Propagation of chaos
<p align="center">
<img src="examples/propagation_of_chaos.gif" alt="Propagation of chaos" width="680" />
</p>
For an interacting N-particle system
$$
dX^{i,N}_t \;=\; b\!\bigl(X^{i,N}_t,\; \mu^N_t\bigr)\, dt \;+\; \sigma\, dW^i_t,
\qquad
\mu^N_t \;=\; \frac{1}{N}\sum_{j=1}^{N}\delta_{X^{j,N}_t},
$$
Sznitman's theorem (1991) states that whenever $b$ is Lipschitz in both arguments,
the empirical measure $\mu^N_t$ converges in Wasserstein-2 to the law $\mu_t$
of the McKeanVlasov limit at rate $\mathcal{O}(1/\sqrt{N})$, and any finite
$k$-tuple of particles becomes asymptotically independent — *chaos propagates*
from $t=0$ to all later times:
$$
\operatorname{Law}\!\bigl(X^{1,N}_t,\dots,X^{k,N}_t\bigr) \;\xrightarrow[N\to\infty]{w}\; \mu_t^{\otimes k}.
$$
The animation above runs four parallel simulations with $N\in\{20,100,500,4000\}$
sharing the *same* bimodal initial law, the *same* drift $-\theta(x-\bar{x})$ and
the *same* noise $\sigma\, dW$. The bottom panel tracks the Wasserstein-2 distance
$W_2(\mu^N_t, \mu_t)$ to a high-resolution reference and visibly decays as
$1/\sqrt{N}$. Source: [`examples/animate_propagation_of_chaos.py`](examples/animate_propagation_of_chaos.py).
Companion notebook: [`examples/notebooks/14_mckean_vlasov.ipynb`](examples/notebooks/14_mckean_vlasov.ipynb).
### Topology, graphs & path signatures
- **`vietoris_rips_filtration`**, **`persistent_homology`**, **`bottleneck_distance`** — TDA primitives.