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Strange Attractors

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  • The City is an Engine. Heller Wilson has found thekey. From acclaimed writer Charles Soule (27, Strongman, Swamp Thing)comes a mathematical thriller about Chaos, Probability, and the race to stop acitywide disaster. In 1978, Dr. Spencer Brownfield saved New York City fromitself, bringing the city back from the verge of collapse and ruin. And forthirty years, his small, unnoticed adjustments to the city's systems have keptthe city afloat. Or so he claims to Heller Wilson, a young graduate student thatDr. Brownfield has chosen as his successor. But are Dr. Brownfield's claimsabout The Butterfly Effect and how his "complexity math" apply to the city'spatterns of life real, or are they the ravings of a man broken by the death ofhis wife and daughter, desperate to find some kind of control over the worldaround him? Part sci-fi, part philosophical exploration, part thriller, STRANGEATTRACTORS examines what you can control in your life and what you can't, andhow important it is to recognize the difference.

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Product Details
Archaia
193639362X / 9781936393626
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
28/05/2013
English
Graphic novels
128 pages
27 cm
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