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20180829153207.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0140092501 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780140092509 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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18019169 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
NCL |
| 050 10 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
Q172.5.C45 |
| Item number |
G54 1988 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
003 |
| Edition number |
19 |
| Item number |
GLE-C 1987 10116 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gleick, James. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Chaos : |
| Remainder of title |
making a new science / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
James Gleick. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Penguin, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1988, ©1987. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 352 pages, [10] pages of plates : |
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illustrations (some color) ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-340) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The butterfly effect -- Revolution -- Life's ups and downs -- A geometry of nature -- Strange attractors -- Universality -- The experimenter -- Images of chaos -- The dynamical systems collective -- Inner rhythms -- Chaos and beyond. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Chaotic behavior in systems. |
| 650 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nonlinear Dynamics. |
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Books |
