It is a straightforward popular science treatment of the mathematics and science behind chaos theory. |
That the tiniest thing can sometimes decide the future course of events is not a discovery exclusive to chaos theory. |
Mathematician benoit Mandelbrot is namedropped on page 49 in a hiccupped discussion of chaos theory. |
We'll have to forgive him for forgetting that it's chaos theory, not catastrophe theory. |
One criticism often laid at the door of chaos theory is that little progress has been made in this discipline after its stunning start. |
Yet true to chaos theory, the appearance of non-linearity does not necessarily imply a lack of coherent structures. |