This book was into the most extraordinary mathematics ever, but the wonderful author writing so clearly and simply made it all utterly understandable. Whilst I confess to not getting very far with it, actually from the pages I read, I found some very interesting ideas about science and maths.

Numerous theories of Mitchell J Feigenbaum and D'arcy Thompson are discussed in an elaborate manner, while also taking into account their historical background. I did study a bit of Physics in a past life, but you don't need to have a background in science to get something out of this book. Bits of biographies from here and there and merged in little chapters which actually don't tell you anything useful/ informative about the science of chaos theory.The author mentions these concepts but without going into lucid examples of what chaos theory implies for them. The book could have benefited from a lecture style presentation, with clear chapter introductions and summaries, so that I could see how it all fit together, not to mention what year he was currently talking about. But I found this book even more engaging for the narrative tale of a moment in history -- a virtual paradigm shift in mathematical thought -- that happened in our lifetimes. However I'm very pleased that I obtained a copy and, having made my way through it, now feel that I may well end up reading it again at some point in the future. Every scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and person who cares about truth and reality needs to read this book and shift their thinking.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. While he does exhibit a fair degree of sloppiness (``unbounded'' is not a synonym for ``infinite'', ``infinite'' does not mean ``quite big''), Chaos actually isn't all that bad as a fairly shallow introduction to chaos theory. This book tells of the journey of these scientists who challenged this mindset, and went to venture in this unexplored territories of science. Sve je to vrlo interesantno, umešno napisano i razborito objašnjeno, ali je i dalje tek za lestvicu iznad laičkog poznavanja teme.Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages. A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces his readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. At the same time, it was received with suspicion, after all it lacked a solid link with the natural world, and some thought of it as some kind of geometrical shapes obtained by someone playing with a computer. In an apparent coincidence, a small number of unrelated people became interested in studying aperiodic, non-linear problems arising in various fields of science all at roughly the same time.