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The role of chaos in science and mathematics is examined in detail by the essays that comprise this work. Distinguished scholars specializing in mathematics, physics, and chemistry discuss the following subjects: Fractals, by Benoit Mandelbrot; The Causality Principle, Deterministic Laws and Chaos, by Heinz-Otto Peitgen; The Transition to Chaos, by Mitchell Feigenbaum; Time, Dynamics and Chaos: Integrating Poincare's "Non-Integrable Systems", by Ilya Prigogine; What Is Chaos, by Steve Smale; Chaos and Cosmos: A Theological Approach, by John Polkinghorne; and Chaos and Beyond, by James Gleick. Introduction by John Holte. This volume is number 26 in the Nobel Conference Series. Co-published with the Nobel Conference. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

A taste
Like the coverage of any conference, you really had to be there.So this, as one might expect, gives a good taste of what the field is about.I had to know more, and the recomended reading and the references abound to let me do just that.Enjoy.

excellent description of system mathematics
easily read in layman's terms to understand the basic principles of chaos mathematics. ... Read more