Chaos: Making a New Science

"Explains the meaning and application of chaos--the study of patterns emerging from seemingly random phenomena--and introduces the scientists responsible for major discoveries in this field." CONTENTS: Prologue; The Butterfly Effect; Revolution; Life's Ups and Downs; A Geometry of Nature; Strange Attractors; Universality; The Experimenter; Images of Chaos; The Dynamical Systems Collective; Inner Rhythms; Chaos and Beyond; Notes on Sources and Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index.