Buchanan, Mark.

Ubiquity : the science of history-- or why the world is simpler than we think / Mark Buchanan. - 1st American ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, c2001. - 273 p. : ill ; 25 cm.

First published: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259) and index.

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Tells the story of the scientific discovery that there is a natural structure of instability woven into the fabric of the world that leads to catastrophes of all kinds--such as earthquakes, forest fires, and stock market crashes--and makes them impossible to predict.

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060960810X

2001028365


Causality (Physics)
Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
Causality (Physics)
Chaos (Science)
History--Philosophy.
Science--Philosophy.

QC6.4.C3 / B83 2001

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