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by Ziauddin Sardar (Author), Iwona Abrams (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840460784
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840460780
  • Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.2 x 1.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 357,365 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Providing an introduction to the controversial field of chaos theory, this text shows how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also exmaines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationships between chaos and complexity, the unifying theory which suggests that all complex systems evolve from a few simple rules.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to the world of Chaos Theory, 19 Dec 2007
By inflamm_wizard (London, UK.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Introducing Chaos (Paperback)
There are a number of introductory books on Chaos Theory available. None of which helped me to get 'into' Chaos Theory. This book, by Ziauddin Sardar is different and probably the most useful introduction for the totally uninitiated.

The main ideas and key players in the development of Chaos theory are covered.
I found the further reading section useful, and purchased two books listed. And reserved a further two books via my local library.

Some words of warning: Learning Chaos theory is a little different from learning other 'scientific' theories because with other theories most people have some familiarity from school or via the media.
Reading even an introductory book on Chaos Theory can be tough going and really is like learning an entirely NEW theory from scratch with new words, concepts(Strange attractors anyone?) and history. Many of the key players in the development of Chaos theory, like Benoit Mandelbrot(Fractals), l had never heard of.
Yes, this is an introductory book with those annoying drawings found in all the 'Introducing' series of books. And yes, the writing is conveniently brief at times, and inconveniently too brief at other times. But, read this book a couple of times and move on to some of the recommended text in the further reading section and you may(like me) find that you finally have an appreciation of what Chaos theory is about.
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1.0 out of 5 stars introducing chaos, 24 Oct 2006
By Neil Murphy "billiam" (sheffieldd yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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I seriously wanted to find out more about chaos theory and this book gave no assistance. Every page has seriously silly 'cartoons' which fail utterly to help. What little text there is has not been written by anyone who has the remotest idea of how to get ideas across. I have now binned it; money wasted!
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1.0 out of 5 stars would you regard signifier and signified as inseparable but not united.?, 31 Jan 2008
By Dave (Holmfirth, Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Introducing Chaos (Paperback)
"Amateur Biblical scholar Immanuel Velikovsky was dismissed by astronomers as a complete crank". Then in the next frame "Now with chaos theory scientists can escape from ignorance of their ignorance"

"The cultural equivalent of attractors would be chiefs, tribes, states and what gives us identity" (accompanied by a picture of the Pope and a nice little butterfly)

"Architect Bruce Goff was amongst the first to use strange attractors to organise a force-field of movement inside some of his houses"

I love this one -"Zaha Hadid used fractal geometry to create a building that used the language of planes to enfold difference in continuity". Unfortunately this "conception was never realised" being too (wait for it) "POSTMODERN"

The most generous summing up I could give this book would be "boldly meaningless"; "wrong" would however probably be more accurate.
If you would like to read something of chaos theory without paradigm shifts, postmodernism and pictures of skinny women with cauliflowers growing out of their heads then please, please, please buy another book.
"Deep Simplicity" by John Gribbin is quite a good one.
Some of the "Introducing" series are very good. This one's a stinker.
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