Chaos: 2the Making of a New Science
Language: English
Published by Viking Books October 1987, 1987
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- Title
- Chaos: 2the Making of a New Science
- Author
- James Gleick, James Geick
- Publisher
- Viking Books October 1987
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670811785
- ISBN 13
- 9780670811786
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This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
As for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose. --Christine Buttery
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