description: Chaos records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable--in short, the chaotic--had been observed. Chaos is a history of discovery. It chronicles, in the words of the scientists themselves, their conflicts and frustrations, their emotions and moments of revelation. After reading Chaos, you will never look at the world in quite the same way again.
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: New Millennium Audio