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We'd better get used to chaos because it certainly isn't going anywhere. Mathematician Ian Stewart--who is also a very talented writer--shares his insights into the history and nature of the highly complex in Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos. While his delightful phrasings will draw in nearly every reader, those with a strong aversion to figures and formulae should understand that it will be slow going. Chaos math suffuses everything from dreaming to the motion of the planets, and Stewart's words can never match the precision of his numbers. Persistence pays off, though; there are so many "aha" moments of insight herein that it almost qualifies as a religious text. The second edition has been partially revised in the wake of 1990s research, and three exciting new chapters report on prediction and other applications of chaos mathematics. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"A book well worth reading and a valuable contribution to the literature on chaos" New Scientist <!--end-->
We'd better get used to chaos because it certainly isn't going anywhere. Mathematician Ian Stewart--who is also a very talented writer--shares his insights into the history and nature of the highly complex in Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos. While his delightful phrasings will draw in nearly every reader, those with a strong aversion to figures and formulae should understand that it will be slow going. Chaos math suffuses everything from dreaming to the motion of the planets, and Stewart's words can never match the precision of his numbers. Persistence pays off, though; there are so many "aha" moments of insight herein that it almost qualifies as a religious text. The second edition has been partially revised in the wake of 1990s research, and three exciting new chapters report on prediction and other applications of chaos mathematics. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"A book well worth reading and a valuable contribution to the literature on chaos" New Scientist <!--end-->
"For those who have even rudimentary mathematical knowledge, for teachers and for lively-minded school and university students, Stewart give a valuable insight into the innards of chaos" The Times Higher Education Supplement
"A fine introduction to a complex subject" Daily Telegraph
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The eternal battle between order and disorder, harmony and chaos, must represent a deeply felt human perception of the universe, for it is common to so many creation myths and so many cultures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
logistic mapping, chaotic control, coiling machine, unstable periodic points, measles data, fractal rules, chaotic zone, iterate the mapping, clockwork world, scaling ratio, inertial axis, phase space reconstruction, reconstructed attractor, quasiperiodic motion, deterministic dynamical system, spin angle, stippled region, test spring, dynamical chaos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The eternal battle between order and disorder, harmony and chaos, must represent a deeply felt human perception of the universe, for it is common to so many creation myths and so many cultures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
logistic mapping, chaotic control, coiling machine, unstable periodic points, measles data, fractal rules, chaotic zone, iterate the mapping, clockwork world, scaling ratio, inertial axis, phase space reconstruction, reconstructed attractor, quasiperiodic motion, deterministic dynamical system, spin angle, stippled region, test spring, dynamical chaos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Theory of Everything, Ant Country, King Oscar, Vast Intellect, Digital Orrery, New York, Big Bang, Benoit Mandelbrot, Considerable Intellect, Henri Poincaré, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Mother Nature, Royal Society, Andrei Kolmogorov, Francis Galton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ohm's Law, Robert May, Tycho Brahe, Vladimir Arnold New!
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