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dimension of, 102, 106–7, 162, 247, 271
goose down as, 110
Koch curve, 98–100, 99, 102–3, 237, insert following page 114
Menger sponge, 101
as “monstrosities,” 102
in pattern formation, 310, 311, insert following page 114
in physiology, 109, 293
as shapes, 118, 219, 221, 227, 236, 237
Sierpinski carpet and gasket, 100, 101, 237
in turbulence, 123, 162
in wildness, 117
see also Mandelbrot set; strange attractors
France, 88, 90, 127, 144, 191, 197, 217, 258
Franceschini, Valter, 209
Franklin, Benjamin, 36
free will, 5, 251
frequency spectrum, 205–6, 206, 207
friction, 24–25, 41–42, 50, 63, 122, 134, 144, 204, 209
functions, iteration of, 61–64, 69–71, 73, 167–68, 170–72, 174–75, 176–77, 222
G
Gaia hypothesis, 279, 307
galaxies, 7, 114, 116
modeling, on computers, 146
Galileo, 39–42, 53
Gell–Mann, Murray, 66, 126
General Electric Corporation, 114
geodynamo, see earth, magnetic field
geometry
classical vs. fractal, 94, 226, 238
dimension in, 97
of surfaces, 104–6
Georgia Institute of Technology, 38, 216, 252, 304
Germany, 191, 229
Giglio, Marzio, 127
Glass, Leon, 281, 290–91
Global Atmosphere Research Program, 18
God, 8, 12, 121, 168, 185, 201, 314
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von color theory of, 163–65
on plants, 197
Goldberger, Ary L., 281–82, 293
Gollub, Jerry P., 127–28, 150, 152, 194, 209
gonorrhea, 65, 79
Gould, Stephen Jay, 200
gout, 277
gravity, 15, 42
Guckenheimer, John, 182
Guevara, Michael, 290–91
Gulf Stream, 55, 197
gypsy moths, 4, 61, 171
H
Halley, Edmond, 14–15
Hao Bai–Lin, 306
Harvard University, 69, 83, 164, 222–223, 243–44, 290
Medical School, 281, 293
Haverford College, 128
Hawking, Stephen, 6–7
“Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?” 6
heart, 3–4, 8, 109, 280–83
arrhythmia in, 281, 283–84, 288–289, 291
defibrillating devices for, 284, 289, 292
valves, 122, 282–83
Heiles, Carl, 147
Heisenberg, 14, 121
Hénon, Michel, 44, 144–49, 303
on galactic orbits, 146–47, 148
Hénon attractor, see strange attractors
Hiroshima, 2
Hohenberg, Pierre, 208, 314
Holmes, Philip, 306
Hooke, Robert, 53
Hoppensteadt, Frank, 77
horseshoe, see Smale
Houthakker, Hendrik, 83–84
Hubbard, John, 217–19, 226–29, 240, 306
Huberman, Bernardo, 269–70, 275–278, 307, 324
Hudson’s Bay Company, 79
Huygens, Christian, 40, 292
I
Ice Ages, 170
Ideker, Raymond E., 288–89
imaginary numbers, see complex numbers
immune system, 263, 272, 280, 314
information theory, 255–62, 268
information, 222, 239, 255–57, 261, 293, 321, 324
creation of, 258, 260–62, 324
insects, 4, 61, 171, 285–86
insomnia, 286, 298
instability, 18, 169, 198, 299
in pattern formation, 309
Institut des Hautes Études Scienti–fiques, 132, 134
Institute for Advanced Study, 14, 37, 69, 132, 272
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (University of Maryland), 65
intelligence, 5, 251
intermittency, 209, 290
International Business Machines Corporation, 83–84, 86–87, 90, 222–223, 249
International Congress of Mathematicians, 45–46, 139
Italy, 127, 209
iteration, see feedback; functions
J
Jacot, Louis, 258
jellyfish, 199, 200
Jensen, Roderick V., 306
jet lag, 286
Johns Hopkins University, 126, 285
Josephson junctions, 42, 271
Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 31
Journal of the Institute of Water Engineers, 197
Julia, Gaston, 216, 221, 226–27
Julia sets, 216, 221–22, 222, 228–29, 236–37
Jupiter, 53–56, insert following page 114
K
Kac, Mark, 183–84
Kadanoff, Leo, 160–61, 329
Koch, Helge von, 99, 118
Koch curve, 98–100, 99, 102–3, 237, insert following page 114
Kolmogorov, A. N., 76, 123, 182, 261
Kuhn, Thomas S., 35–39, 262, 315
concept of paradigms, 37, 39, 42, 52, 107, 269
problem–solving vs. scientific revolutions, 36–37
L
Lamont–Doherty Geophysical Observatory (Columbia University), 103
Landau, Lev D., 123–24, 130–32, 137, 152, 194
Lanford, Oscar E., 183, 268
language, 256
Laplace, Pierre Simon, 14, 144
lasers, 42, 271, 130–31
leaves, 196, 202, 238
Lehrer, Tom, 243
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 115–16
Leontief, Wassily,