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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Meteorologist Edward Lorenz emerged as the intellectual father of chaos theory after revealing weather’s unpredictability.
Chapter 3: Simple nonlinear systems are capable of generating remarkably complex behavior.
Chapter 4: In the 1970s, physicists and mathematicians began to investigate nonlinear systems in depth.
Chapter 5: Animal populations act like nonlinear dynamical systems.
Chapter 6: Mandelbrot's fractal geometry exposed the infinitely detailed patterns within complex dynamical systems.
Chapter 7: Strange attractors enabled physicists to grasp the intricate motions underlying turbulence.
Chapter 8: By uncovering universal laws of nonlinear systems, Mitchell Feigenbaum brought chaos theory new respectability.
Chapter 9: A band of young Santa Cruz mathematicians harnessed computer graphics and daily life to spread chaos theory.
Chapter 10: Nonlinear dynamical systems permeate nature – and are crucial to how our biology works.
Description
Chaos (1987) delves into the most recent theoretical revolution in physics: chaos theory. In the 1970s, scientists began discovering that the world doesn’t behave as neatly as classical physics suggests. From the weather to animal populations to our heartbeats – irregularities, disorder, and chaos pervade our universe. And yet, there seems to be a strange order to the chaos of life. Chaos explores the history of this new science, revealing its startling findings, and pondering its implications.
Who Should Listen
- Curious minds interested in unraveling the mysteries of the universe
- People interested in the history of modern science
- Anyone looking to understand and appreciate the chaos of life