Sometimes I get a comment from a reader that’s just too good to leave in the comments section where readers of the main blog page will not see it. So, I call your attention to Kemlo Aki’s helpful comment on my recent post on Chaos theory:
Chaos theory is fascinating! My son and I put together a “course” for ourselves on the subject, and (in addition to Gleick’s classic book) we used the following resources:
“Chaos” Video Lectures by Prof. Steven Strogatz (from The Great Courses company, http://www.thegreatcourses.com). Informative and entertaining.
SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Strogatz (New York: Hyperion, 2003). This wonderful text is written in a humorous style for a general audience. Covers some of the same material as the video lectures (listed above).
“NOVA Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension.” WGBH Educational Foundation and the Catticus Corporation. 2008. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/hunting-hidden-dimension.html)
Heller, Eric. “Resonance Fine Art.” Visual representations of scientific phenomenon by Harvard Physicist Eric Heller. Beautiful and fascinating. (http://www.ericjhellergallery.com/)
Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Nial Neger. “Fractal Geometry” Yale University. The definitive site on fractals: everything you ever wanted to know about fractals and more. (http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/)
