Abstract
Predrag Cvitanovic (ed) 1984 Bristol: Adam Hilger xii + 514 pp price £28 (£11.50 paperback) (IOP members' prices £22.40 and £9.20, respectively) ISBN 0 85274 766 7 Hdbk, 0 85274 765 9 Pbk
This collection of important papers, about the explanation and applications of unpredictability in dynamics generated by simple mathematical systems, marks the emergence of 'chaology' as a mature discipline within applied mathematics. Mathematical analysis is centred on what in the jargon is described as Feigenbaum's cascade of perioddoubling bifurcations.