| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Chaos : a science for the real world / Ian Percival -- Chaos in the swing of a pendulum / David Tritton -- An experiment with mathematics / Franco Vivaldi -- Portraits of chaos / Ian Stewart -- Turbulent times for fluids / Tom Mullin -- A weather eye on unpredictability / Tim Palmer -- The chaotic rhythms of life / Robert May -- Is the solar system stable? / Carl Murray -- Clocks and chaos in chemistry / Stephen Scott -- Fractals : a geometry of nature / Benoit Mandelbrot -- Fractals, reflections and distortions / Caroline Series -- Chaos, catastrophes and engineering / Allan McRobie and Michael Thompson -- Chaos on the circuit board / Jim Lesurf -- Chaos on the trading floor / Robert Savit -- Quantum physics on the edge of chaos / Michael Berry -- A random walk in arithmetic / Gregory Chaitin -- Chaos, entropy and the arrow of time / Peter Coveney -- Is the universe a machine? / Paul Davies. |
| Subject |
Chaotic behavior in systems.
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Chaotic behavior in systems. |
| Added Author |
Hall, Nina.
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| ISBN |
0393034402 |
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