New Scientist Guide to Chaos

by Nina Hall (Editor)

The New Scientist Guide to Chaos (Penguin Science) Hall, Nina

Genres: Science, Mathematics, Nonfiction, Physics

Paperback

First published February 27, 1992

Reviews

[Scott Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read! Really a huge span of topics in the field with great images to aid. Only got lost a few times and enjoyed the majority despite hating some subjects like astrophysics previously. Lovely ending chapter to consolidate. Also made me laugh as I recently watched the original Jurassic park in which Jeff Goldbloom's character is a chaos mathematician. Wonder if they got the buzzwords from here... I'll have to check the dates of publishing. Great read anyway :)

[Juan Tomás · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quizás su principal carencia sea también su punto fuerte: data de 1991. Esto nos da una inevitable impresión de que los contenidos están algo desfasados -más aún considerando el papel que juega la computación en el estudio del caos y su apabullante desarrollo en los últimos años-, pero también nos gratifica con la emoción de lo que en estos años era aún todo un hot topic.
Todo esto de la mano de pesos pesados de la materia (Mandelbrot, Stewart, Berry...), que nos dan una apasionada introducción al caos y las distintas disciplinas que este abarca.

[Adam]

Essays about chaos. Mandelbrot and mathematical examples of chaos were most interesting.

[Levis517 · Rating 5 out of 5]

You don't need to be a writer if you want to talk about something you love. There's as much poetry in these essays on chaos theory as there is in more classic literature. Each chapter is soaked in an infectious love of the science. I was a convert from the first page.