This is one of the first books that was ever written on the chaos theory, and has also been nominated for various book prizes.This book was published in 1997 by RHUK, and is available in paperback. This book has been nominated for numerous book awards and widely acclaimed as one of the best books on chaos theory. In this book, the importance of scientific education is stressed upon by the author. The book explains the Mandelbrot Set and Julia Set without resorting to complex mathematics. Numerous theories of Mitchell J Feigenbaum and D'arcy Thompson are discussed in an elaborate manner, while also taking into account their historical background.
Various concepts such as the butterfly effect, universal constants, and strange attractors are discussed at a length in the book. It philosophically counters the second law of thermodynamics.Ĭhaos helps us in understanding the fact that there is growth and pattern in chaos itself, despite the outward appearance of being random. Chaos theory is considered as the third revolution in 20th-century science that uses traditional mathematical ways of understanding and explaining complex natural systems. Chaos theory is a relatively new field in physics, and deals with simple and complex causes that react to one another.
Digitally printed, with excellent print and paper qualityĬhaos, a book by James Gleick, first introduced the concept and early development of the chaos theory to the public.Paper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent).But they're loaded dice.'' Chaos is deep, even frightening in its holistic embrace of nature as paradoxically complex, wildly disorderly, random and yet stable in its infinite stream of ``self-similarities.'' A ground-breaking book about what seems to be the future of physics. Gleick traces the ideas of these little-known pioneersincluding Mitchell Feigenbaum and his Butterfly Effect Benoit Mandelbrot, whose ``fractal'' concept led to a new geometry of nature and Joseph Ford who countered Einstein with ``God plays dice with the universe. ""Chaos'' is what a handful of theorists steeped in math and computer know-how are calling their challengingly abstract new look at nature in terms of nonlinear dynamics. Science readers who have gone through relativity theory, quantum physics, Heisenbergian uncertainty, black holes and the world of quarks and virtual particles only to be stunned by recent Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) will welcome New York Times science writer Gleick's adventurous attempt to describe the revolutionary science of chaos.
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