Chaos : making a new science / James Gleick ; read by Michael Jackson.

By:

Gleick, James [author.]

Contributor(s):

Jackson, Michael, 1934- [narrator.]

Material type: Sound

SoundPublisher number: 40540 | Dove Books on TapePublisher: Studio City, CA : Dove Books on Tape, [1989]Publisher: ℗1989Edition: AbridgedDescription: 2 audiocassettes (approximately 3 hr.) : analog, Dolby processedContent type:

spoken word

Media type:

audio

Carrier type:

audiocassette

ISBN:

1558001417
9781558001411

Other title:

Making a new science

Subject(s):

Chaotic behavior in systems

Genre/Form:

Audiobooks.

DDC classification:

003 19

LOC classification:

RZC 7198

Read by Michael Jackson.Summary: 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.

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Read by Michael Jackson.

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.

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