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Introducing Chaos

Paperback • 1999 • English • 2. edition

Introducing Chaos

By Ziauddin Sardar, Iwona Abrams

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About the book

If a butterfly stirs its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos is the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems has evolved into a new science that declares the universe to be far more unpredictable than we could have imagined. Ziauddin Sardar and Iwona Abrams document how chaos is present in many events, from the fluctuation in animal populations to the rise and fall of financia...Show more

Probability and statistics
Chaos theory
History of mathematics

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ISBN

9781840460780

Publisher

Icon Books

Published year

1999

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Introducing Chaos

Format

Paperback

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