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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143113453
ISBN-13
9780143113454
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Product Key Features

Edition
20
Book Title
Chaos : Making a New Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Chaotic Behavior in Systems, System Theory, History, Physics / General
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Science
Author
James Gleick
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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Trade
LCCN
2009-285057
Reviews
" Fascinating . . . almost every paragraph contains a jolt." -- The New York Times " Taut and exciting . . . a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." -- The New York Times Book Review " Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." -- Chicago Tribune, " Fascinating . . . almost every paragraph contains a jolt." -- The New York Times " Taut and exciting . . . a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." -- The New York Times Book Review " Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." -- Chicago Tribune " An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation othat someone had just found the light switch." --Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " Chaos is a feast." -- The Washington Post Book World, " Fascinating . . . almost every paragraph contains a jolt." - The New York Times " Taut and exciting . . . a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." - The New York Times Book Review " Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." - Chicago Tribune, "Fascinating . . . almost every paragraph contains a jolt."  -- The New York Times "Taut and exciting . . . a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes."  -- The New York Times Book Review "Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." -- Chicago Tribune "An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch."  --Douglas Adams, author of  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " Chaos  is a feast."  -- The Washington Post Book World, "Fascinating . . . almost every paragraph contains a jolt." -- The New York Times "Taut and exciting . . . a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." -- The New York Times Book Review "Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." -- Chicago Tribune "An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch." --Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " Chaos is a feast." -- The Washington Post Book World, " Fascinating . . . almost every paragraph contains a jolt." - The New York Times " Taut and exciting . . . a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." - The New York Times Book Review " Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." - Chicago Tribune " An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation othat someone had just found the light switch." -Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " Chaos is a feast." - The Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
003/.857
Grade To
UP
Table Of Content
Chaos Prologue The Butterfly Effect Edward Lorenz and his toy weather. The computer misbehaves. Long-range forecasting is doomed. Order masquerading as randomness. A world of nonlinearity. "We completely missed the point." Revolution A revolution in seeing. Pendulum clocks, space balls, and playground swings. The invention of the horseshoe. A mystery solved: Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Life's Ups and Downs Modeling wildlife populations. Nonlinear science, "the study of non-elephant animals." Pitchfork bifurcations and a ride on the Spree. A movie of chaos and a messianic appeal. A Geometry of Nature A discovery about cotton prices. A refugee from Bourbaki. Transmission errors and jagged shores. New dimensions. The monsters of fractal geometry. Quakes in the schizosphere. From clouds to blood vessels. The trash cans of science. "To see the world in a grain of sand." Strange Attractors A problem for God. Transitions in the laboratory. Rotating cylinders and a turning point. David Ruelle's idea for turbulence. Loops in phase space. Mille-feuilles and sausage. An astronomer's mapping. "Fireworks or galaxies." Universality A new start at Los Alamos. The renormalization group. Decoding color. The rise of numerical experimentation. Mitchell Feigenbaum's breakthrough. A universal theory. The rejection letters. Meeting in Como. Clouds and paintings. The Experimenter Helium in a Small Box. "Insolid billowing of the solid." Flow and form in nature. Albert Libchaber's delicate triumph. Experiment joins theory. From one dimension to many. Images of Chaos The complex plane. Surprise in Newton's method. The Mandelbrot set: sprouts and tendrils. Art and commerce meet science. Fractal basin boundaries. The chaos game. The Dynamical Systems Collective Santa Cruz and the sixties. The analog computer. Was this science? "A long-range vision." Measuring unpredictability. Information theory. From microscale to macroscale. The dripping faucet. Audiovisual aids. An era ends. Inner Rhythms A misunderstanding about models. The complex body. The dynamical heart. Resetting the biological clock. Fatal arrhythmia. Chick embryos and abnormal beats. Chaos as health. Chaos and Beyond New beliefs, new definitions. The Second Law, the snowflake puzzle, and loaded dice. Opportunity and necessity. Afterword Notes on Sources and Further Reading Acknowledgments Index
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick-- the author of Time Travel: A History --that reveals the science behind chaos theory A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz's discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum's calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot's concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick's engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. In Chaos , Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible to beginners, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe., The million-copy New York Times bestseller and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that reveals the science behind chaos theory A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz's discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum's calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot's concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick's engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. In Chaos , Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible to beginners, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe.
LC Classification Number
Q172.5.C45G54 2008

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