Chaos: Making a New Science

The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick—the author of Time Travel: A History—that reveals the science behind chaos theory

A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new 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.

• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
• The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
• Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition
• The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
• COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
• The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with Student Solutions Manual: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and ... Edition (Studies in Nonlinearity) (Volume 1)