Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness - Hardcover

Briggs, John; Peat, F. David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060160616 ISBN 13: 9780060160616

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1989

Synopsis

Illustrations by Cindy Tavernise. Explores the many faces of chaos. Reveals how its law direct most of the processes of everyday life and how it appears that everything in the universe is interconnected. Bibliography. Index. 222p.

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About the Author

John Briggs, Ph.D., is a professor of English and the journalism coordinator at Western Connecticut State University. He lives in Danbury, Connecticut.

F. David Peat holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Liverpool and has written dozens of books on art, science, and spirituality. He lives in London and can be reached at www.fdavidpeat.com. They are the authors of Turbulent Mirror.

From Library Journal

Unlike James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science ( LJ 8/87), which focused heavily on mathematics, Briggs and Peat look at how chaos theory--the idea that turbulent phenomena actually contain organizing patterns--has also influenced other scientific disciplines, offering a model, for example, for understanding the human brain and developing computer systems for artificial intelligence. The book's chapter heading quotations from Chinese Taoist texts and Alice in Wonderland are clues that readers are being led into abstruse territory. But encouraging readers to appreciate nuances of truth rather than to seek a reductionist version of truth may be what chaos theory--and this book--is all about. For comprehensive public and academic library collections.-- Laurie Tynan, Montgomery Cty.
Norristown P.L., Pa.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060160616
• ISBN 13: 9780060160616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222