CHAOS : Making a New Science

Gleick, James

ISBN 10: 0140092501 / ISBN 13: 9780140092509

Published by Viking Press, New York, NY, 1987

About this Item

Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF, w/light wear. Fascinating moment in science history. The volume reviews a decade in which scientists shed restraints of classical science. Editor and reporter James Gleick of the New York Times, in lucid prose, recounts how physicists, biololgists, astronmers and economists --- using the concept of chaos --- create new ways of seeing order and pattern in areas where only the random, erratic and unpredictable were observable. Fine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CHAOS : Making a New Science
• Publisher: Viking Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140092501
• ISBN 13: 9780140092509
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition, 4th Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Technology

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Synopsis

Explains the meaning and application of chaos--the study of patterns emerging from seemingly random phenomena--and introduces the scientists responsible for major discoveries in this field

Reviews

Gleick here adventurously attempts to describe the revolutionary science of "chaos," a challengingly abstract new look at nature in terms of nonlinear dynamics. "A ground-breaking book about what seems to be the future of physics," praised PW. Illustrated. 100,000 first printing; author tour.
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