Gleick, formerly a science reporter for the It is clearly a consequence of often simple system nonlinearities which result in an extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and thus create a state of practical unpredictability. This book is the national best-seller that made the subject popular or, in the words of its cover blurb, “records the birth of a new science.”Ĭhaos, a term coined by University of Maryland mathematician Jim Yorke, is the complicated, seemingly random behavior of some physical and biological systems that is intrinsic to the system rather than caused by outside noise or interference. Science has published a series of six articles on how chaos theory has affected the way scientists and others view the world, and a number of other books and articles of varying quality have taken up the subject. Tom Peters now advises businesses to thrive on chaos instead of excellence ,
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