Chaos - James Gleick [171]
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Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 269, 275
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Yale University, 306
Yorke, James, 65–69, 182, 259, 270–271, 317
and fractal basin boundaries, 233–235
message to physicists, 69, 73
recognition of chaos, 73–76
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Portions of this book first appeared, in different form, in the New York Times Magazine, as “Solving the Mathematical Riddle of Chaos” and “The Man Who Reshaped Geometry.”
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
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
Afterword
Notes on Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
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