Chemical Chaos

by Stephen K. Scott

Book Overview

Chaos theory challenges fundamental ideas in all areas of science, and many of the best examples arise in chemistry. This valuable account of chemical chaos reviews both theory and experiment, emphasizing the simple features that combine to produce 'order within disorder'. The basic building blocks for chaos--nonlinearity and feedback--occur quite naturally in chemical systems. Chaos does not appear suddenly or at random, but is created through one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198556519
• ISBN13: 9780198556510
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"