Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life

Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's DEEP
SIMPLICITY: CHAOS, COMPLEXITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE brilliantly
illuminates the
harmony underlying our existence. The world around us can be a complex, confusing
place.
Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters
seldom
seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it
all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals, our seemingly random universe is actually built on
simple
laws of cause and effect that can explain why, for example, just one vehicle braking can
cause a traffic jam; why wild storms result from a slight atmospheric change; even how
we
evolved from the most basic materials. Like a zen painting, a fractal image or the pattern
on
a butterfly's wings, simple elements form the bedrock of a sophisticated whole. "The
master
of popular science writing". ("Sunday Times"). "What makes "Deep Simplicity" different
from other books on complexity theory is that Gribbin ...goes back to the fundamentals".
("Daily Telegraph"). "One is left feeling even more - if this is possible - filled with
admiration for science and delight at the world it investigates". ("Financial Times"). John
Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling
books, including "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat", "Stardust", "Science: A History" and
"In
Search of the Multiverse". Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University
and
is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.