Chaos : : Making a new Science
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"With a new afterword"--T.p. verso.
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 -- Afterword.
"Seemingly unrelated kinds of irregularity take on a new meaning when understood in terms of chaos theory. In Chaos...James Gleick reveals the science and the scientists behind chaos, telling the story of one of the most significant new waves of scientific knowledge in our time."-Cover.
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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: xiii, 360 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780143113454
0143113453
SUBJECTS
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Chaos.