num_pages: 352
description: A 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. 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. 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.
language: English
title: Chaos: Making a New Science
titlecomplete: Chaos: Making a New Science
characters: Lev Landau, Balthasar van der Pol, Peter A. Carruthers, Michel Hénon, Freeman Dyson, Isaac Newton, Joseph Ford (physicist), Hendrik Houthakker, Robert May, Plato, Floris Takens, Giulio Casati, John Maynard Smith, Helge von Koch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Harry Swinney, Michael Barnsley, Albert Libchaber, Edward Norton Lorenz, Frank Hoppensteadt, Benoit Mandelbrot, Henri Poincaré, Jerry Gollub, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Wassily Leontief, Theodor Schwenk, Gaston Julia, John Hamal Hubbard, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Christopher Scholz, Pierre Fatou, Euclid, Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Kuhn, James A. Yorke, Georg Cantor, Lewis Fry Richardson, Stephen Smale, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, David Ruelle, John von Neumann, Kenneth Geddes Wilson, Richard Feynman
genres: Physics, Biology, Unfinished, Philosophy, Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Mathematics, History, Popular Science
ratings_count: 37641
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Science Book Prize, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Penguin Group