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Found to be very interesting very pleased with purchase and condition of book
Melds anecdotes of the lives of scientists with the intellectual history of chaos
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Gleick is an unabashed enthusiast so he only discusses the success of chaos science
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Read it many years ago and it taught me new ways at looking at the world
Useful description of mathematical modeling of natural physical world
James gleick weaves together a fantastic captivating tale out of history and connects threads about scientist participants in a... Read More
It introduced me to a completely new way to think about the world
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- This product had a total of 792 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 17 2020.
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Im not a mathematician or a meteorologist so i cant definitively speak to the accuracy of the research summaries in this book
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However popular science writing is no substitute for technical writing and on its own is little more than a diversion
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I am sure that a lot of things have happened after the book was published
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I would also have appreciated a longer list of citations of the original publications
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Chaos theory is the study of nonlinear dynamical physical systems that show sensitivity to initial conditions small causes can have big effects and manifest order out of seemingly disorder and disorder out of seemingly order
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This is one of the nice things about chaos theory dynamics that used to be difficult to describe using nonlinear equations due to their seeming complexity can now be nicely depicted in lower dimensional topological maps
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The lay reader will come away with a basic understanding of chaos theory
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The author describes several examples in sciences were the chaos is involve
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