Exploring chaos : a guide to the new science of disorder /
"In the past few years, a new line of scientific inquiry called "chaos theory" has caught the popular imagination. Young people, in particular, have taken to the complex computer-generated patterns that seem to teeter precariously between order and randomness. A dazzling mathematical...
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
1993.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chaos : a science for the real world / Ian Percival
- Chaos in the swing of a pendulum / David Tritton
- An experiment with mathematics / Franco Vivaldi
- Portraits of chaos / Ian Stewart
- Turbulent times for fluids / Tom Mullin
- A weather eye on unpredictability / Tim Palmer
- The chaotic rhythms of life / Robert May
- Is the solar system stable? / Carl Murray
- Clocks and chaos in chemistry / Stephen Scott
- Fractals : a geometry of nature / Benoit Mandelbrot
- Fractals, reflections and distortions / Caroline Series
- Chaos, catastrophes and engineering / Allan McRobie and Michael Thompson
- Chaos on the circuit board / Jim Lesurf
- Chaos on the trading floor / Robert Savit
- Quantum physics on the edge of chaos / Michael Berry
- A random walk in arithmetic / Gregory Chaitin
- Chaos, entropy and the arrow of time / Peter Coveney
- Is the universe a machine? / Paul Davies.