num_pages: 352
description: Although highly mathematical in origin, chaos is a science of the everyday world, addressing questions every child has wondered how clouds form, how smoke rises, how water eddies in a stream.
language: English
title: Chaos
titlecomplete: Chaos
characters: John Maynard Smith, Frank Hoppensteadt, Plato, Harry Swinney, Balthasar van der Pol, Albert Libchaber, Christiaan Huygens, James A. Yorke, Christopher Scholz, Floris Takens, Mitchell Feigenbaum, David Ruelle, Peter A. Carruthers, Euclid, Wassily Leontief, Georg Cantor, Pierre Fatou, Jerry Gollub, Giulio Casati, Kenneth Geddes Wilson, Michael Barnsley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lev Landau, Lewis Fry Richardson, Richard Feynman, Henri Poincaré, Helge von Koch, Hendrik Houthakker, Isaac Newton, Michel Hénon, Joseph Ford (physicist), Freeman Dyson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John von Neumann, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Robert May, Theodor Schwenk, Thomas Kuhn, John Hamal Hubbard, Stephen Smale, Edward Norton Lorenz, Gaston Julia
genres: Physics, Mathematics, History, Popular Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Biology, Science, Unfinished, Nonfiction
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: Scientific American Modern Classics