Books

Books : reviews

Nina Hall, ed.
The New Scientist Guide to Chaos.
Penguin. 1992

Contents

• Ian Percival. Chaos: a science for the real world. 1992
• David J. Tritton. Chaos in the swing of a pendulum. 1992
• Franco Vivaldi. An experiment with mathematics. 1992
• Ian Stewart. Portraits of chaos. 1992
• Tom Mullin. Turbulent times for fluids. 1992
• Tim Palmer. A weather eye on unpredictability. 1992
• Robert M. May. The chaotic rhythms of life. 1992
• Carl Murray. Is the solar system stable?. 1992
• Stephen K. Scott. Clocks and chaos in chemistry. 1992
• Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Fractals -- a geometry of nature. 1992
• Caroline Series. Fractals, reflections and distortions. 1992
• Allan McRobie, J. Michael T. Thompson. Chaos, catastrophes and engineering. 1992
• Jim Lesurf. Chaos on the circuit board. 1992
• Robert Savit. Chaos on the trading floor. 1992
• Michael Berry. Quantum physics on the edge of chaos. 1992
• Gregory J. Chaitin. A random walk in arithmetic. 1992
• Peter Coveney. Chaos, entropy and the arrow of time. 1992
• Paul C. W. Davies. Is the universe a machine?. 1992