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Chaos: Making A New Science
James Gleick

Chaos: Making A New Science

making a new science

Penguin (Non-Classics) (Dec 01, 1988)
9780140092509
| Paperback
368 pages | 152 x 229 mm | English
Dewey 003
LC Classification Q172.5.C45 .G54 1987
LC Control No. 88017448

Subject

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

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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.

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