Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (663 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004KP8TMM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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B. Case said Challenging and fascinating. This book formed the basis of a discussion group consisting of eight two-hour sessions. The members of our discussion group were mostly accomplished seniors retired from professions that required doctorate or masters degrees (e.g., aerospace engineers, doctors, physicists, mathematicians, technology professors, librarians, science teachers, etc.). About a third of us had no significant academic science backgrounds, just high intelligence, strong. Thoughts on Strogatz's Sync: Educational & enjoyable read, uniquely placed between pop science & textbooks Mark B Gerstein I enjoyed Steven Strogatz's Sync very much. It is a rare book, more technical than a popular science piece yet written extremely well with the same craft of writing as a NY Times science piece -- unlike many textbooks -- and thus easy-to-read and imparting a lot of intuition and insight. Sadly, I suspect that the group that this type of book appeals to is fairly small -- that is, people who want something more technical than a pop science piece,. Synchronization everywhere Strogatz goes around showing us synchronization everywhere. He means everywhere in the whole universe. From small fireflies to big moons. Atoms and humans are also mentioned. For example, superconductivity and water freezing are just synchronization of atoms. Hey, you will feel his passion for the subject throughout his book; he is madly in love. Sometimes even throwing mind-blowing ideas around fun explanations on how order arises from chaos.
The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics.