Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by John Gribbin
Recommended by Charlie Munger
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Math, Physics, and Most Recommended Books.
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only th...
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