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Sync

How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

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By: Steven Strogatz
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
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The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree.

At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics.

©2003 Steven H. Strogatz (P)2011 Audible, Inc. Science
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Critics' reviews

" Sync is a wonderfully lucid and thoroughly entertaining story of the emerging science of synchrony." (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Columbia University)
"Inspiring... offers a real sense of what it's like to be at the beginning of Something Big." ( New Scientist)
"Beautifully written and breathtaking in scope, SYNC tells both a personal and a scientific story." (Charles S. Peskin, Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science, New York University)
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Allein das Kapitel über Schlaf macht das Hörbuch schon lohnend.

Strogatz stellt Phänomene spontaner Ordnung in der Natur anschaulich und ohne Mathematik dar. Dies geht über biologische Rhytmen wie den Schlaf-Wach-Rhytmus über Anwendungen wie Laser bis zu Fragen nach der Erstehung von Bewusstsein.

Wer von Fragen wie „Was ist Leben?“ oder „Wie entsteht Ordnung in der Natur?“ fasziniert ist, dem hat das Buch viel zu geben.

Der Einstieg ist auch ohne Mathematik nicht ganz ohne. Aber es lohnt sich am Ball zu bleiben!

Anspruchsvoll, aber sehr lohnend

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