These are fascinating stories of insight and discovery, told with a keen sense of drama and excitement

Contents
Prologue
The butterfly effect
Revolution
Life's ups and downs
A geometry of nature
Strange Attractors
Universality
The experimenter
Images of chaos
The dynamical systems collective
Inner rhythms
Chaos and beyond
Notes on sources and further reading
Acknowledgments
Index

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.

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