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The novel is excellent (and goes even more into the thing about chaos theory and math).
While there is more talk of chaos theory in the book, there's nothing in the book that actually does a better job of justifying escaping dinosaurs mathematically.
Agreed it's a good book, though. Fun fact: the original title was Billy and the Clonosaurus.
Comment by greenplasticman at 25/07/2014 at 17:36 UTC
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I think this is a misinterpretation. Chaos Theory is not used in the story to explain how the dinosaurs escaped, it is used to point out a flaw in Hammond's ego. The book contains a type of fractal, called a Dragon Curve where you start with a line, make some changes based on simple instructions, and repeat the pattern. Soon the pattern becomes more complex than you would have thought given the starting instructions.
Hammond believes that he has a perfect simple plan, and instead he has something that is completely out of his control. The park is a deterministic system that appears to be in control, it will appear to behave predictably until it breaks down and appears to behave randomly.