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Chapter V Chaos and Order W hen James Gleick published Chaos (Viking-Penguin, 1987), a number of people, myself included, said, "Wow!" Suddenly a world that defied rational description became describable. Chaotic forces and events, which seem to lie beyond any comprehensible pattern, could be appreciated in their random multiplicity and simul-