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Autumn 1987 • Vol. IX No. 4 • Book Reviews |

The Language of Chaos

By Martin Lebowitz

Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics by A. Zee. New York: Macmillan, 1986. 322 pages. $25.00.

T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and the Discourses of Difference by Michael Beehler. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. 182 pages. $20.00.

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