Chaos: Making a New Science | 
 enlarge | Author: James Gleick
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Anv Rep
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0143113453
Dewey Decimal Number: 003
EAN: 9780143113454
Publication Date: August 26, 2008
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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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Another excellent book for non-experts December 8, 2008
Paul Stevenson (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA)
I am not a hard scientist, but I like to have some idea of what is going on in those fields. Books like this one are ideal for people such as me. This book tackles the fascinating field of Chaos Theory. It turns out that certain patterns recur over and over in many diverse areas of the universe, whether it is the patterning of galaxies in clusters or the price of cotton.
Specialists working in many fields independently discovered curious patterns, and eventually, starting mainly in the 1970's, they became aware of each others' work. This book takes physics as the field on which it focuses, but it mentions many others. Since some of these fields involve conscious human decision making (especially economics), I have begun to wonder whether I can find comparable patterns in languages, my own specialty.
There are many reviews of a previous printing of this book: Chaos: Making a New Science, so you can go there to check them out. Other books useful to non-specialists interested in the history of and current research in the hard sciences are The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, A Briefer History of Time and Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World.
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