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Chaos
James Gleick

Chaos

Making a New Science

Penguin Books (Dec 01, 1988)
9780140092509
| Paperback
368 pages | 153 x 229 mm | English
$ 20.00 | Value: $ 20.00
Dewey 003
LC Classification Q172.5.C45 .G54 1988

Subject

  • Chaos
  • Chaotic Behavior In Systems
  • Comportamiento Caótico En Sistemas
  • Science / Physics

Plot

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.