num_pages: 176
description: If a butterfly stirs its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos is the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems, has evolved into a new science that declares the universe to be far more unpredictable than we could have imagined. Continuing the now familiar format of the Introducing... series, this book documents how chaos is present in most events, from the fluctuation in small animal populations to the rise and fall of financial markets.
language: English
title: Chaos for Beginners
titlecomplete: Chaos for Beginners
characters: Isaac Newton, Louis de Broglie, W. Brian Arthur, Georges Anderla, Edward Norton Lorenz, Michael Batty, Pierre Fatou, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Andrey Kolmogorov, Henri Poincaré, James A. Yorke, Roger Lewin, Jerome Ravetz, Boris Chirikov, Floris Takens, Charles Jencks, Immanuel Velikovsky, David Ruelle, Max Planck, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Tien-Yien Li, Jürgen Moser, Ernest Rutherford, Ilya Prigogine, Max Born, James Gleick, Erwin Schrödinger, Ian Stewart (mathematician), Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Benoit Mandelbrot, Robert May, Albert Einstein
genres: History, Science, Comics, Philosophy, Mathematics, Theory, Science Nature, Graphic Novels, Physics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 643
series: Introducing Graphic Guides
publisher: Icon Books