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| author = [[Jack Cohen (scientist)|Jack Cohen]] and [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]]<br />
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'''''The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World''''' (1994) is a book about [[complex systems|complexity theory]] and the nature of [[scientific explanation]] written by [[biologist]] [[Jack Cohen (scientist)|Jack Cohen]] and [[mathematician]] [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]].<br />
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In this book Cohen and Stewart give their ideas on chaos theory, particularly on how the simple leads to the complex, and conversely, how the complex leads to the simple, and argue for a need for contextual explanation in science as a complement to reduction. This book dovetails with other books written by the Cohen-Stewart team, particularly ''[[Figments of Reality]]''.<br />
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As with other Cohen-Stewart books, topics are illustrated with humorous science fiction snippets dealing with a fictional alien intelligence, the Zarathustrians, whom Cohen and Stewart use as metaphors of the human mind itself.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
''[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]'' commented, "Although the book assumes you have zero knowledge of science (and thus is a little patronizing in the early chapters), it presents the concepts of Complexity Theory as well as anything we've seen."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Essential Reading|magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=23 |publisher=[[Imagine Media]] |date=November 1996|page=59}}</ref><br />
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===Additional reviews===<br />
*{{Cite journal|last=Casti|first=John L.|date=21 July 1994|title=Why is anything ever simple?|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/370189a0.pdf?origin=ppub|journal=Nature|volume=370|issue=6486|pages=189|doi=10.1038/370189a0|bibcode=1994Natur.370..189C|s2cid=4317485 }}<br />
*{{cite news |last1=Regis |first1=Ed |title=The World Made Easy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/books/the-world-made-easy.html |work=The New York Times |date=12 June 1994}}<br />
*{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jack-cohen/the-collapse-of-chaos/|title=THE COLLAPSE OF CHAOS by Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}<br />
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-84983-3|title=Nonfiction Book Review: The Collapse of Chaos: 2discovering Simplicity in a Complex World by Jack Cohen, Author, Ian Stewart, With Viking Books $23.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-84983-3|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}<br />
*{{Cite journal|title=A review of "The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World," by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, 1995 |date=2010 |last=Tait |first=Stephanie |volume=7|issue=2 |journal=Complicity |language=en-US|doi=10.29173/cmplct8955|doi-access=free }}<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart: ''The Collapse of Chaos: discovering simplicity in a complex world'', Penguin Books, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-14-029125-4}}<br />
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