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Exploring chaos : a guide to the new science of disorder
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- Creator
- edited by Nina Hall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1993
- Physical Details
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- 223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393034400, 0393034402
- OCLC
- ocm26809682
- 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