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Chaos Making a New Science

byJames Gleick
History
Science
Physics
Chaotic Behavior in Systems
Mathematical & Computational

The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot.

Format

Paperback

Pages

352

Publisher

Penguin

Published

1988

Edition

First Edition

Language

en

ISBN-13

9780140092509