From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 05:47:27 MDT
From: Emlyn (emlyn@wizardsofau.com)
>It's by James Gleick, who
>wrote the unfortunately unreadable pop-sci "Chaos", with the pretty
>mandlebrot set images.
To each his-and-her-own, Emlyn...!
Gleick's book _Chaos_ turned my physics world upside down. It
was his excerpt in Physics Today, first, that did it, then I bought
the book when it came out ('87?). I never looked at the world the same
after Gleick's words, and I devoted some pretty serious time in the
later 80's working on chaos-related topics.
*Wonderful* book...
Amara
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