num_pages: 342
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: Gaston Julia, John von Neumann, Plato, John Maynard Smith, Theodor Schwenk, Helge von Koch, Harry Swinney, Hendrik Houthakker, James A. Yorke, Balthasar van der Pol, Lev Landau, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Euclid, Floris Takens, Christopher Scholz, Wassily Leontief, Freeman Dyson, Giulio Casati, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Isaac Newton, Peter A. Carruthers, Frank Hoppensteadt, Michel Hénon, Georg Cantor, Stephen Smale, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Robert May, Pierre Fatou, Henri Poincaré, Albert Libchaber, Richard Feynman, Christiaan Huygens, Joseph Ford (physicist), Kenneth Geddes Wilson, Jerry Gollub, David Ruelle, Thomas Kuhn, John Hamal Hubbard, Michael Barnsley, Edward Norton Lorenz, Lewis Fry Richardson, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Benoit Mandelbrot
genres: Popular Science, History, Psychology, Biology, Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Unfinished, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37650
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/Little, Brown Book Group