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Chaos

making a new science

by James Gleick

1987 360 pages eng ★ 4.2 (25 ratings)

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. …

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