Chaos : making a new science / James Gleick.

By: Gleick, JamesMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin, 1988, ©1987Description: xi, 352 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmISBN: 0140092501; 9780140092509Subject(s): Chaotic behavior in systems | Nonlinear DynamicsDDC classification: 003 LOC classification: Q172.5.C45 | G54 1988
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-340) and index.

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.

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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