5/24/2023 0 Comments Chaos a new science![]() ![]() James Gleick was born in New York City in 1954. " Chaos is a feast." - The Washington Post Book World ![]() Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch." -Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." - Chicago Tribune a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." - The New York Times Book Review almost every paragraph contains a jolt." - The New York Times ![]() In Chaos, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible to beginners, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe. From Edward Lorenz's discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum's calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot's concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick's engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick- the author of Time Travel: A History-that reveals the science behind chaos theoryĪ work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. ![]()
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