Chaos: Making a New Science: James Gleick: 9780143113454: Amazon.com: Books

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This was very popular when it first was published it's still quite good, albeit only semi truly technical, it's not the real thing, however it gives a good taste of what the real thing actually is actually all about, though this is on chaos theory not catastrophe theoty, chaos is generally time dynamic, catastrophe is generally time static....