num_pages: 3
description: Gleick chronicles the birth of a new science and the journey of physicists, biologists, astronomers, and economists to create a new way of understanding nature's inherent complexities.
language: English
title: Chaos
titlecomplete: Chaos
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: Audio Literature