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Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
Lorenz's butterfly, Mandelbrot's fractals, strange attractors, and the scientists who found order in disorder. The book that made chaos theory famous.
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you want the story of a scientific revolution.
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you want the math.
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Three things you will actually use
- Small causes, large effects.
- Order hides in chaos.
- Outsiders start revolutions.
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Read the chapter on the butterfly effect.
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Gleick's Chaos.
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