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Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components - the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market - means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world"--Back cover.
5) [Pi]
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code in this critically acclaimed, sci-fi thriller! Maximilian Cohen (Sean Gullete) is on the verge of the most important discovery of his life. For the past ten years, he has been attempting to decode the numerical pattern beneath the ultimate system of ordered chaos -- the stock market. As Max verges on a solution, chaos is swallowing the world around...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Oliver Beane and Frankie Figge are starting middle school in their suburban town of Lake Grove Glen, but from the beginning things seem a little weird, starting with the mysterious girl Matilda Sandoval who seems to know a lot about the boys, and continuing with a series of apparently random events that may not be random at all; somehow it all leads back to Preston Oglethorpe, a former student genius at their school who won the Nobel...
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