Chaos as health.Ĭhaos and Beyond New beliefs, new definitions. Inner Rhythms A misunderstanding about models. Was this science? “A long-range vision.” Measuring unpredictability. The Dynamical Systems Collective Santa Cruz and the sixties. The Mandelbrot set: sprouts and tendrils. “Insolid billowing of the solid.” Flow and form in nature. A movie of chaos and a messianic appeal.Ī Geometry of Nature A discovery about cotton prices. Nonlinear science, “the study of non-elephant animals.” Pitchfork bifurcations and a ride on the Spree.

Life’s Ups and Downs Modeling wildlife populations. A mystery solved: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Pendulum clocks, space balls, and playground swings. James writes about chaos almost in a poetic way, showing you how chaos is everywhere we go, impacting many parts of our lives, we tend to ignore it because we don’t know it is there.īoth the view of chaos James has, and the way he writes about the different scientist that have dedicated their lives to this cause is fantastic, and it will catch you from page one.Human was the music, natural was the static… -JOHN UPDIKEĬontents Prologue The Butterfly Effect Edward Lorenz and his toy weather. If you enjoy well put together science books that also tell a story, then this one is the one for you. It is a fascinating book with a unique premise. The author takes us through the lives of several different scientists and allow us to get to know them, what they have to say, and take a quick look into their lives and how chaos has affected them. The book is fantastic because it doesn’t feel like a heavy science book, but rather about a non-fiction one that tells multiple exciting stories about very peculiar people, while also explaining a few things about chaos. Author James Gleick was brave enough to take this job upon his shoulders and delivered a beautiful yet more intriguing answer in the form of a book.Ĭhaos: Making a New Science focuses in two main things: The theory of chaos, the science behind it and the many types of research and studies that have been done through the years on the matter, and in the scientist that have devoted their lives to studying this type of science. You would think nobody would want to study the reasoning behind all the bad things in life, but you were wrong. In the book Chaos: Making a New Science, author James Gleick manages to write about one of the most problematic and chaotic (ha!) topics in the world, and it does so in a relatively easy way to read. But of course, studying chaos can be quite… Problematic. You see, even the most unexplainable things like chaos have a science behind it, reasoning that tries to explain why these things happen, and most importantly, how.

Have you ever thought about the science behind the chaos? You know all those disastrous things that happen all over the world that happen to us, but seem to have no logical explanation? Well, they might have one.

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