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Chaos : making a new science

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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  • "Chaos"
  • "Making a new science"@en
  • "Solving the mathematical riddle of chaos"
  • "Man who reshaped geometry"

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  • "The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the butterfly effect to the world—even more relevant two decades after it became an international sensation For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Inleiding in de chaostheorie."
  • "Examines the new science of chaos--a scientific revolution that is dramatically altering established perceptions and understandings of the world--and reveals a new way of seeing order and pattern in the universe."@en
  • ""Seemingly unrelated kinds of irregularity take on a new meaning when understood in terms of chaos theory. In Chaos ... James Gleick reveals the science and the scientists behind chaos, telling the story of one of the most significant new waves of scientific knowledge in our time."--Cover."
  • "From fractals to 'the butterfly effect', the revolutionary chaos theory explains why we cannot predict the weather or the National Lottery but locates simple patterns within the disorder."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Populárně-naučné publikace"

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  • "Hun dun"
  • "Hun Dun : Kai chuang xin ke xue"
  • "Chaos : making a new science"@it
  • "Chaos : vznik nové vědy"
  • "Chaos : making a new science"
  • "Chaos : making a new science"@en
  • "Chaos : Making a new science"
  • "Chaos making a new science"@en
  • "Chaos making a new science"
  • "Hun dun : kai chuang xin ke xue"
  • "混沌 : 开创新科学"
  • "Chaos: making a new science"
  • "Chaos: making a new science"@en
  • "Chaos : Making a New Science"
  • "Chaos"
  • "混沌"
  • "Từ hiệu ứng con bướm đến lý thuyết hỗn độn"
  • "Chaos : de derde wetenschappelijke revolutie"

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