: making a new science Gleick, James creator Gleick, James text New York : Viking ©1987 monographic eng

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xi, 352 pages 24cm. The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot. Prologue -- The butterfly effect -- Revolution -- Life's ups and downs -- A geometry of nature -- Strange attractors -- Universality -- The experimenter -- Images of chaos -- The dynamical systems collective -- Inner rhythms -- Chaos and beyond -- Notes on sources and further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index. / Gleick, James Computer science, knowledge and systems Systems Chaotic behavior in systems Science Chaos 003 GLE 9780140092509 :Donated from J P Gupta 210819 20210819155636.0