chaos making a new science
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780140092509
Description: 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.