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Chaos : Making a New Science by Gleick, James is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chaos : Making a New Science about?

The “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information ( Chicago Tribune ). 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. With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is “a ground

Who reads Chaos : Making a New Science?

Author

Gleick, James

Publisher

The Folio Society

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781453210475

Category

science

Subjects

Computer Science, Mathematics, Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (22,519 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14