Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven Strogatz

Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

Steven Strogatz

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science informative slow-paced

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At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; ...

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