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The Collapse of Chaos
Softcover edition
AuthorJack Cohen and Ian Stewart
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Subjectscientific explanation, complexity theory
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date
1994
Pages495
ISBN978-0-670-84983-3
OCLC247326335

The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (1994) is a book about complexity theory and the nature of scientific explanation written by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.

In this book Cohen and Stewart give their ideas on chaos theory, particularly on how the simple leads to the complex, and conversely, how the complex leads to the simple, and argue for a need for contextual explanation in science as a complement to reduction. This book dovetails with other books written by the Cohen-Stewart team, particularly Figments of Reality.

As with other Cohen-Stewart books, topics are illustrated with humorous science fiction snippets dealing with a fictional alien intelligence, the Zarathustrians, whom Cohen and Stewart use as metaphors of the human mind itself.

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