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.

His previous book was The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, an international bestseller exploring the genesis. From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Soon, social scientists, psychologists, and even a few management scholars found an interest in chaos theory.

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. James Gleick’s is the author, most recently, of the Time Travel: A History. The bestselling book by James Gleick (1987) made chaos theory more understandable to those outside the mathematical and physics disciplines. y 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. Lorenz was born in 1917 in West Hartford, Connecticut. 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-anniversar. He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, the mathematics of complex dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.

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