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Title	:	Chaos: Making a New Science
Author	:	James Gleick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1988 by Penguin Books (first published October 29th 1987)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Mathematics. Physics

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 29564 Users | 970 Reviews

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Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterise many natural phenomena.

This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

As for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose. --Christine Buttery

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Original Title:	Chaos: Making a New Science
ISBN:	0140092501 (ISBN13: 9780140092509)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (1988), Science Book Prize Nominee (1989), National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (1987)

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I found it quite informative, especially in communicating what it would perhaps be like working in science at an exciting time. However there were many sections that bored me and aperiodic jumps in his focus that left me lost a bit. All in all I can say I have a better grasp of what chaos is all about... but on a bit of reflection... well, no, not really. A good history I guess, I'm now all fired up to read textbooks on this stuff (:

Informative, easy to understand, but too repetitive.

I finally read the book that ought to have been required reading for freshman physics majors for the past 20 years! The other day when the radio announcer reported the length of the Florida coastline, I found myself wondering what length measuring stick was used. It is interesting to contemplate how much of the themes of this book have migrated into the modern cultural consciousness. Then, you may wind up contemplating how much of that migration was due to Jeff Goldblum's ham-fisted

Chaos: The Tip of a Giant IcebergGleick only gives an introduction about the actual science and beauty of Chaos. Instead he focusses on giving a poetic account of the scientists who first stumbled on it -- and their great surprise and their struggles form the narrative crux of the book.While some may say this makes it a less informative book, for me this made it one of the most intriguing non-fiction books I have read. Gleick's way of telling the stories makes the reader share in the wonder and

A great introduction to new readers of the subject. If one is keeping up with physics for last decade or so, the content of Chaos doesn't offer anything new. With the introduction to chaos theory, Gleick gives a wide variety of historical anecdotes involving various scientists across borders and scientific disciplines who have observed the phenomenon but haven't been able to nail it. Chaos brings these stories together and puts them under an umbrella. The narration becomes easier to follow and

Not so much a new science as an old obsession of a few mystics... :(Gleick gives an unorganized overview some fun mathematical concepts like fractals, strange attractors, and chaos theory.But he exaggerates the importance of these topics, presenting them as a holistic revolution in physics, overthrowing reductionism, which just isn't the case.The last chapter was incomprehensible hippie mysticism, then the book just ended leaving me wondering what the whole point was.It seems to me like this

The greatest discoveries of the 20th Century physics include Relativity Theory, Quantum Theory and Chaos Theory. Of the three, the only one that we can see and play with is chaos. From the flight patterns of flocks of birds, to heart arrhythmia, to stock market fluctuation to the coast of Alaska, the underlying patterns can be revealed in this wonderful branch of science. There are newer books on the subject but none better for us lay people.