The Ingenious Mind of Nature
Subtitle: Deciphering the Patterns of Man, Society, and the Universe
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: August 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780738205847
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Science; Nature; Nature/Ecology; System Theory; Science / System Theory; Reference
First sentence: The ascendancy of the science of chaos, complexity theory, catastrophe theory, and general systems theory in the latter half of this century is traceable to a very old question: Are the laws of nature fundamentally continuous and orderly, with occasional lapses into disorder?