About this title: In the 1980s, a groundbreaking new idea sought to explain why the world is often unpredictable. An astrophysicist describes the principles behind chaos and complexity theory, and the tremendous achievements made over the past two decades in the applications of these theories.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780141007229ISBN:0141007222
Description: New. But the sensitive way in which systems respond to those basic laws, combined with feedback, can explain why, for example, just one vehicle braking on a motorway can cause a traffic jam; how a tiny genetic mutation or environmental change may make a sp... read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400062560ISBN:140006256X
Description: New. Why do traffic jams seem to happen for no apparent reason? Can major earthquakes be predicted? Why does the stock market have its ups and downs? How do species evolve? Where do galaxies come from? What is the origin of life on Earth? "What if all the... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hb
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400062560ISBN:140006256X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Smaller 8vo. pp. 275, "Chaos begets complexity, and complexity begets life"—the most complex thing there is, writes Cambridge University astrophysicist Gribbin in opening this examination of how chaos theory has shifted scientific thinking. Gribbin, a veteran popular science writer (The Scientists, etc. ), points out that chaos theory is based on two simple principles: small changes in the starting conditions of a process can cause big changes in the outcome, and ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2005-04-05
ISBN-13:9781400062560ISBN:140006256X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400062560ISBN:140006256X
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"This is an amazing book about how transformation works in this universe, which is at the edge of chaos, where systems are about to change their state. The laws of this transformational state, are remarkably mathematically consistent, and the underlying patterns are as true for the patterns displayed by galaxies, as for the patterns displayed on a tiger's tail. Heady stuff."
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