0
*
0
*
1450
2025
book-filter
Edition cover

Chaos

  • James Gleick

4.16

25 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Chaotic behavior in systems
  • Science
  • Chaos
  • Social aspects
  • Muziek
  • Aspect social
  • Sound recording industry
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Music
  • Musique
  • Sound recordings
  • Industrie
  • Grammofoonplaten
  • Enregistrements sonores
  • Chaotisches System
  • Systeemtheorie
  • Sistemas Dinamicos
  • Fisica Geral
  • Mathematical physics
  • Nonlinear dynamics
  • Q172.5.c45 g54 1988
  • 2010 c-989
  • Q 172.5.c45 g556 1988
  • 003
  • Literary collections
Already read

31

people already read

Currently reading

11

people are currently reading

Want to read

164

people want to read

About the author

  • James Gleick

    born August 1, 1954

    4.06

    65 ratings · 15 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Editora Campus

    6 novembro 2006

  • Edition cover

    Alfa Yayincilik

    Oct 28, 2020

  • Edition cover

    TÜBITAK Yayinlari

    1995

  • Edition cover

    FLAMMARION

    Apr 21, 2021

Edition cover

FLAMMARION

Apr 21, 2021

  • Edition cover

    FLAMMARION

    Apr 21, 2021

  • Edition cover

    Zysk i S-ka

    Jan 01, 2018

  • Edition cover

    Michel

    1989

  • Edition cover

    Flammarion

    January 4, 1999

  • Edition cover

    Sphere Books

    1991

  • Edition cover

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    December 1, 1988

  • Edition cover

    Viking

    1987

  • Edition cover

    Penguin

    1988

  • Edition cover

    ABACUS

    1988

  • Edition cover

    Viking Adult

    October 29, 1987

  • Edition cover

    Minerva

    1997

  • Edition cover

    20th anniversary ed.

    Penguin Books

    2008

  • Edition cover

    Cardinal Books

    1989

  • Edition cover

    Abacus

    1993

  • Edition cover

    Penguin

    1988

  • Edition cover

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    December 1, 1988

  • Edition cover

    William Heinemann Ltd

    June 27, 1988

  • Edition cover

    Abridged edition

    New Millennium Audio

    May 2002

  • Edition cover

    Little Brown & Company

    2001

  • Edition cover

    Little Brown & Company

    2001

  • Edition cover

    Little Brown & Company

    2001

  • Edition cover

    Little Brown & Company

    2001

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Random House

    2010

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Random House

    2010

  • Edition cover

    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2011

  • Edition cover

    1ST edition

    HELSINKI FINLAND HELSINGISSA ART HOUSE

    1987

  • Edition cover

    Audio Literature

    February 1989

  • Edition cover

    Tandem Library

    December 1988