num_pages: 352
description: A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces his 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: Helge von Koch, Benoit Mandelbrot, Kenneth Geddes Wilson, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Michel Hénon, John von Neumann, Pierre Fatou, Albert Libchaber, Michael Barnsley, Christopher Scholz, Richard Feynman, John Hamal Hubbard, Henri Poincaré, Christiaan Huygens, Floris Takens, Isaac Newton, Harry Swinney, Lewis Fry Richardson, Wassily Leontief, Lev Landau, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Plato, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Balthasar van der Pol, John Maynard Smith, Stephen Smale, Freeman Dyson, Hendrik Houthakker, Joseph Ford (physicist), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edward Norton Lorenz, Euclid, Thomas Kuhn, David Ruelle, Robert May, Jerry Gollub, Frank Hoppensteadt, Georg Cantor, Theodor Schwenk, Giulio Casati, Peter A. Carruthers, Gaston Julia, James A. Yorke
genres: Philosophy, Biology, Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Psychology, Popular Science, Mathematics, Unfinished, History
ratings_count: 37644
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: Abacus