Chaos :making a new science
- 作者: Gleick, James.
- 出版: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin 1988, ©1987.
- 稽核項: xi, 352 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations (some color) ;23 cm.
- 標題: Chaotic behavior in systems.
- ISBN: 0143113453 , 9780143113454
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-340) and index. 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.
- 摘要: 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.
- 系統號: 005012913
- 資料類型: 圖書
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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
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