by Carlos Madrid · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447378500
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«La mariposa y el tornado» is the popular science essay by Carlos Madrid, published by RBA in hardback (139 pages, in Spanish).
The book shows how chaos theory helps understand climate change: in complex systems, a minimal initial disturbance can end up producing far-reaching global effects. It uses the image of the butterfly to bring the reader closer to notions such as nonlinearity, sensitivity to initial conditions, or the chaotic behaviour of the atmosphere.
The subtitle of the work is 'Teoría del caos y cambio climático'. It is part of the 'El mundo es matemático' collection by National Geographic. Published in 2015.
For readers interested in popular science and in how mathematics helps understand phenomena such as climate change.
