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"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." --
3) Bellwether
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English
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Connie Willis has won more awards than anyone else in SF and fantasy for her work. Her skill is convincingly reinforced in this novella that combines such disparate subjects as chaos theory, sheep-raising and true love. Willis slyly lampoons society's herd mentality as she weaves the tale of a statistician and a scientist whose collaboration produces hilarious results, and may lead them to the stunning breakthrough for which they've been searching.
"Sandra...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty." --
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Losseni Diarrassouba
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Une épopée interstellaire captivante qui explore l'inconnu et les mystères de l'univers.
Dans un avenir proche, l'humanité fait face à un phénomène extraordinaire : l'arrivée de visiteurs venus d'ailleurs, des extraterrestres dont les intentions restent mystérieuses. L'humanité se retrouve à la croisée des chemins, confrontée à des choix cruciaux,
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives."--
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Berrett-Koehler
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune; Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives and Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with...
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2023.
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English
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"From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science In In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating...
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Oxford University Press
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English
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Patterns are everywhere in nature--in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? As Philip Ball reveals in Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts, this order creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Indeed, scientists have found that there is a pattern-forming tendency inherent in the basic structure and processes of...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Edward Belbruno is President of Innovative Orbital Design, visiting research collaborator in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, and a consultant on advanced astrodynamics with NASA. He is the author of Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics (Princeton).
When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon,...
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W.H. Freeeman and Co
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[1993]
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English
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With his critically acclaimed best-sellers The Mathematical Toursist and Islands of Truth, Ivars Peterson took readers to the frontiers of modern mathematics. His new book provides an up-to-date look at one of science's greatest detective stories: the search for order in the workings of the solar system.
In the late 1600s, Sir Isaac Newton provided what astronomers had long sought: a seemingly reliable way of calculating planetary orbits and positions....
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Chaos chronicles ; 2
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TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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The hero is John Bandicut, a space adventurer with an implanted quarx which can predict and prevent cataclysms. In this escapade he travels to a world to destroy an evil immaterial entity. Only problem is, in destroying it he might destroy the memory of what brought him to that world in the first place. By the author of Neptune Crossing.
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