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ChaosJames Gleick

Chaos

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29 editions · 7 languages
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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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29 editions · 7 languages
  • Audiobook · English · 2002
    New Millennium Audio · 9781590071120
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Minerva · 400 pages · 9780749386061
  • Audiobook · English · 1989
    Audio Literature · 9781558001411
  • Paperback · English · 1989
    Cardinal Books · 368 pages · 9780747404132
  • Paperback · English · 1988
    Penguin (Non-Classics) · 368 pages · 9780140092509
  • Other · English · 2011
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781453210505
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