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Overview

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller

THIS EDITION of James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe.

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Science readers who have gone through relativity theory, quantum physics, Heisenbergian uncertainty, black holes and the world of quarks and virtual particles only to be stunned by recent Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) will welcome New York Times science writer Gleick's adventurous attempt to describe the revolutionary science of chaos. ``Chaos'' is what a handful of theorists steeped in math and computer know-how are calling their challengingly abstract new look at nature in terms of nonlinear dynamics. Gleick traces the ideas of these little-known pioneersincluding Mitchell Feigenbaum and his Butterfly Effect; Benoit Mandelbrot, whose ``fractal'' concept led to a new geometry of nature; and Joseph Ford who countered Einstein with ``God plays dice with the universe. But they're loaded dice.'' Chaos is deep, even frightening in its holistic embrace of nature as paradoxically complex, wildly disorderly, random and yet stable in its infinite stream of ``self-similarities.'' A ground-breaking book about what seems to be the future of physics. Illustrations. QPBC alternate. (October 20)
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Highly entertaining . . . a startling look at newly discovered universal laws.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143113454
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/26/2008
  • Edition description: Anniversar
  • Edition number: 20
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 91,036
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

JAMES GLEICK is the author of six books including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Isaac Newton and the National Book Award nominee Genius.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1
The Butterfly Effect 9
Edward Lorenz and his toy weather
The computer misbehaves
Long-range forecasting is doomed
Order masquerading as randomness
A world of nonlinearity
"We completely missed the point"
Revolution 33
A revolution in seeing
Pendulum clocks, space balls, and playground swings
The invention of the horseshoe
A mystery solved: Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Life's Ups and Downs 57
Modeling wildlife populations
Nonlinear science, "the study of non-elephant animals"
Pitchfork bifurcations and a ride on the Spree
A movie of chaos and a messianic appeal
A Geometry of Nature 81
A discovery about cotton prices
A refugee from Bourbaki
Transmission errors and jagged shores
New dimensions
The monsters of fractal geometry
Quakes in the schizosphere
From clouds to blood vessels
The trash cans of science
"To see the world in a grain of sand"
Strange Attractors 119
A problem for God
Transitions in the laboratory
Rotating cylinders and a turning point
David Ruelle's idea for turbulence
Loops in phase space
Mille-feuilles and sausage
An astronomer's mapping
"Fireworks or galaxies"
Universality 155
A new start at Los Alamos
The renormalization group
Decoding color
The rise of numerical experimentation
Mitchell Feigenbaum's break-through
A universal theory
The rejection letters
Meeting in Como
Clouds and paintings
The Experimenter 189
Helium in a Small Box
"Insolid billowing of the solid"
Flow and form in nature
Albert Libchaber's delicate triumph
Experiment joins theory
From one dimension to many
Images of Chaos 213
The complex plane
Surprise in Newton's method
The Mandelbrot set: sprouts and tendrils
Art and commerce meet science
Fractal basin boundaries
The chaos game
The Dynamical Systems Collective 241
Santa Cruz and the sixties
The analog computer
Was this science?
"A long-range vision"
Measuring unpredictability
Information theory
From microscale to macroscale
The dripping faucet
Audiovisual aids
An era ends
Inner Rhythms 273
A misunderstanding about models
The complex body
The dynamical heart
Resetting the biological clock
Fatal arrhythmia
Chick embryos and abnormal beats
Chaos as health
Chaos and Beyond 301
New beliefs, new definitions
The Second Law, the snowflake puzzle, and loaded dice
Opportunity and necessity
Notes on Sources and Further Reading 318
Acknowledgments 341
Index 343
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  • Posted October 28, 2011

    Disjointed

    This book is typical of those authors that provide a lot of fact and detail, but do not tie anything together. Other than saying that I read a book about "Chaos theory", it was of little value or entertainment.

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  • Posted March 22, 2009

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    Insightful but tedious

    Chaos: Making a New Science is intrinsically a bunch of short essays based on the author's research into a number of Chaos experiments and the scientists performing them. One after another with nothing tying them into some sort of progression or main point. Still, many of the stories were very interesting and thought provoking. Some even included insightful tidbits about the inspirations or influences that guided the scientists. But overall it was a tedious read with no real conclusion other than this theory can mathematically describe many seemingly random events.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2003

    Tough Going

    Unlike the reviewers above, I found the book to be a bit tough going at times. In addition, the focus on the personalities involved I found to be distracting. The math/science is good, the story somewhat less so.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 13, 2001

    Excellent Coverage

    The story of chaos is unwoven in this book in an interesting manner with few equations so the average reader can understand and comprehend the emergence of this science.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 9, 2000

    A popular introduction to a complex topic

    A very good history of fractal dynamics, its origins and applications for the layman from its origins in skewed data during meteorological printouts at MIT to modern day applications and how seemingly irrational phenomena can be explained..

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