Chaos: Making a New Science
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0747404135
ISBN 13
9780140092509
Category
Sciences (SC)
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Publication Year
1988
Publisher
Pages
352
Description
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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