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Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with chaotic models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theoryits implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/12/1994
      ISBN13: 9780226429762, 978-0226429762
      ISBN10: 0226429768
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      Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with chaotic models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theoryits implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself.

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