Chaos: Making a New Science
Item
Title
Chaos: Making a New Science
Description
Image of the cover for James Gleick's novel Chaos: Making a New Science. Gleick's novel interrogates chaos theory. From Edward Lorenz’s discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum’s calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick’s engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science.
This cover also includes the description "The National Bestseller" and "These are fascinating stories of insight and discovery, told with a keen sense of drama and excitement...Almost every paragraph contains a jolt - The New York Times"
This cover also includes the description "The National Bestseller" and "These are fascinating stories of insight and discovery, told with a keen sense of drama and excitement...Almost every paragraph contains a jolt - The New York Times"
list of authors
James Gleick - worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times, founded an early Internet portal, the Pipeline, and has written several books of popular science
Publisher
Penguin Books - 1987
Subject
Arab's Mouth / Belle Moral
Fayne
Fayne
Source
From AMM's personal archive
