The Resource Chaos : making a new science, James Gleick
Chaos : making a new science, James Gleick
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The item Chaos : making a new science, James Gleick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Chaos : making a new science, James Gleick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 352 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- The butterfly effect
- Revolution
- Life's ups and downs
- A geometry of nature
- Strange attractors
- Universality
- The experimenter
- Images of chaos
- The dynamical systems collective
- Inner rhythms
- Chaos and beyond
- Isbn
- 9780670811786
- Label
- Chaos : making a new science
- Title
- Chaos
- Title remainder
- making a new science
- Statement of responsibility
- James Gleick
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gleick, James
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chaotic behavior in systems
- Science
- Science
- Label
- Chaos : making a new science, James Gleick
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Bibliography: pages 318-340
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The butterfly effect -- Revolution -- Life's ups and downs -- A geometry of nature -- Strange attractors -- Universality -- The experimenter -- Images of chaos -- The dynamical systems collective -- Inner rhythms -- Chaos and beyond
- Control code
- 15366709
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 352 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670811786
- Lccn
- 87040025
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1021856
- Label
- Chaos : making a new science, James Gleick
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Bibliography: pages 318-340
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The butterfly effect -- Revolution -- Life's ups and downs -- A geometry of nature -- Strange attractors -- Universality -- The experimenter -- Images of chaos -- The dynamical systems collective -- Inner rhythms -- Chaos and beyond
- Control code
- 15366709
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 352 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670811786
- Lccn
- 87040025
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1021856
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