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Chaos : making a new science / James Gleick.

Title
Chaos : making a new science / James Gleick.
Author
Gleick, James
Publication
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin, 1988, c1987.

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Description
xi, 352 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems
  • Chaotic behavior in systems
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 318-340.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0140092501
LCCN
^^^88017448^
OCLC
  • 18019169
  • SCSB-10217929
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library