Putting A New Spin on Groups: The Science of Chaos
Bud McClure has written a very curious book. In some ways, what he produced is a compendium-in-brief or a wide world of information. He writes of chaos theory, including a run past 'a three-stage model of science.' He recounts theories of physics and arrives at 'the mathematics of dynamics which forms one of the cornerstones of chaos and self-organizational theories.' He takes us through Dynamics, principally nonlinear dynamics, and attractors, and strange attractors; chaos terminology, including dissipative structures, the Butterfly effect, fractals, bifurcation, Slime Mold, Phase-Locking or Entrainment, and the Beluzov-Zhabotinski Reaction. Along the way, we pass at least one theory of evolution (Arthur Young's), and toruses, and Koch's snowflake. And that's only the first 15 pages! Make no mistake, this is fascinating stuff.—Dr. Sue HenryProfessor Emerita, University of Denver