Chaos: Making a New SciencePenguin, 2008 M08 26 - 384 páginas The million-copy New York Times bestseller and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that reveals the science behind chaos theory A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz’s discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum’s calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick’s engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. In Chaos, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible to beginners, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe. |
Contenido
Prologue | 1 |
Revolution | 33 |
A revolution in seeing Pendulum clocks space balls and playground | 53 |
A Geometry of Nature | 81 |
Strange Attractors | 119 |
Universality | 155 |
The Experimenter | 189 |
Images of Chaos | 213 |
Inner Rhythms | 273 |
Chaos and Beyond | 301 |
New beliefs new definitions The Second Law the snowflake puzzle | 319 |
Acknowledgments | 349 |
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