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From: bstewart@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Bruce Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Re: what's a strange attractor?
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.231648.11374@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
Date: 24 Jun 91 23:16:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.152801.673@gw.wmich.edu>
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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In article <1991Jun22.152801.673@gw.wmich.edu> 32kaiser@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>Guys..
>
>What's a good book that describes in layman's term 
>and in detail what a strange attractor is

Science journalism (of a high order):
James Gleick, Chaos: making a new science, Viking, 1987.

Innovative visual text, calculus not required:
R.H. Abraham and C.D. Shaw, Dynamics: the Geometry of Behavior,
Aerial Press, Santa Cruz, Ca, 4 vols, 1982-88