The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the
butterfly effect to the world—even more relevant two decades after it
became an international sensation
For
centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the
natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined
that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the
scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how
complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small
group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new
importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had
long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would
eventually produce massive ones—and complex systems like the weather,
economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful
than they had ever been before.
In this seminal
work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field
of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able
to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around
us.
“Beautifully lucid . . . Gleick has a novelist’s touch for
describing his scientists and their settings, an eye for the apt
analogy, and a sense of the dramatic and the poetic.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“There is a teleological grandeur about this new math that gives the imagination wings.”
—Vogue
“Gleick’s Chaos is not only enthralling and precise, but full of beautifully strange and strangely beautiful ideas.”
—Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
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