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| 文件类型: | 书 |
|---|---|
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
James Gleick |
| ISBN: | 0670811785 9780670811786 |
| OCLC号码: | 15366709 |
| 描述: | xi, 352 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| 责任: | James Gleick. |
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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.
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Fun book, motivates reader toward science of nonlinear
Gleick's "Chaos" is a fun read. He dramatizes (perhaps over dramatizes) the discovery of non-linear dynamics in the 1970s and 1980s. He focuses on Americans, portraying a select group to hold up as heros and leaders of a mathematical and scientific movement.While it is true that there was a sudden upswing...
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Gleick's "Chaos" is a fun read. He dramatizes (perhaps over dramatizes) the discovery of non-linear dynamics in the 1970s and 1980s. He focuses on Americans, portraying a select group to hold up as heros and leaders of a mathematical and scientific movement.While it is true that there was a sudden upswing in interest in non-linear dynamics and its implications for scientific models, and while the people he choses to chronicle might have been influential in the movement's popularity, I believe based on weak understanding that mathematicians have not chosen to celebrate the same people that Gleick did. It seems that the mathematical properties that Gleick's subjects discovered were perhaps corollary consequences of mathematical discoveries made earlier. I am no expert, so I am an ignorant observer of mathematicians; that is just how it seems to me looking in. So Feigenbaum is heralded by Gleick, but he is not in the mathematical literature. For example, in MathSciNet, the database of the AMS, there are only 35 hits for "Feigenbaum's Constant," whereas there are almost 3,000 hits for "Lyapunov exponents," which I think is the more general mathematical concept for dynamic systems. Nevertheless, this exciting narrative could light a fire of ambition in the hearts of teen math fans. It may very well have already inspired some mathematical careers.
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