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The great eighteenth-century scientists thought they had discovered the immutable laws of a universe that runs like clockwork, but they were quite wrong ...

From the tiniest particles in quantum physics to the tumbling of celestial bodies - not to mention dripping taps, bouncing billiard balls, the vagaries of the weather and the Stock Exchange - nothing in the universe ever behaves in a way that is totally predictable. As Ian Stewart shows in this stimulating and accessible account, the key to this chaotic world can be found in the concept of chaos, one of the most exciting breakthroughs in recent decades.

Its basic principles and many practical applications are clearly presented. Containing substantial new material this revised and updated edition also discusses the startling developments that have occurred since 1989, including the possibility of prediction and control of chaotic systems and how the mathematics of chaos could lead to a new answer to Einstein's famous question, 'Does God Play Dice?'

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