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  • ISBN:
    0786887214
  • ISBN-13:
    9780786887217
  • PUB. DATE:
    April 2004
  • PUBLISHER:
    Hyperion
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven H. Strogatz

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Sync

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  • Pub. Date: April 2004
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Sales Rank: 309,378

Synopsis

The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree.

At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics.

New Scientist

Offers a real sense of what it's like to be at the beginning of Something Big.

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