Arvind Kumar (2)

Modern science began with the great conceptual discoveries of Galileo and Newton. This century has seen the emergence of two revolutionary paradigms in physical sciences: quantum theory and relativity, and the astonishing progress in molecular understanding of the phenomenon of life. We are now in the midst of yet another revolution in science that is cutting across its different disciplines. Chaos, Fractals and Self-organization is a non-technical account of the pioneering ideas that are destined to culminate in a new non-linear science of the next century. It is a subject for everyone, for its insights are deep but practical and down to earth: the leaking tap in our bathroom may be exhibiting chaos, the bronchial network of our lungs has a fractal structure, and all of us are marvellous self-organizing systems of nature.… (mehr)