Chaos

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It came too early which is reflected in the imprecision and shallow quality of Gleick's discussion, which can be frustratingly confusing at times. This burn of the natural world, this magic of the unknown, is what draws me to read physics and philosophy as an absolute amature. It's a case study in political factions and egos, sometimes cooperation and always wonder at seeing the world in a new way. Funkcioniše kao uvod i zanimljiva istorija, kao upoznavanje sa nelinearnom dinamikom, ali ne mnogo više od toga. A mathematician turned meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, builds a "toy weather" on what's still a fairly early computer in the early 1960s, and in working with the parameters, concludes that long-term weather forecasting is doomed--a simple deterministic system is producing unpredictable results.

Personally I wasn't overly enamoured with the first half of this book - with the possible exception of the piece on Mr Mandelbrot himself - it's very much a historic account of who figured what out rather than shedding light on chaos theory itself. While some may say this makes it a less informative book, for me this made it one of the most intriguing non-fiction books I have read. He shows you pictures and dances around the pools of chaos and clouds of complexity, but never actually puts the reader INTO the churning water or shoots the reader into energized, cumuliform heaps.If you want to cultivate a general appreciation of the foundations of material reality then this is a great place to start.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Most of science as we know it, as it was made in the first place, and as we learned about it in school is linear.The book charts the history of the development of chaos theory from the first serious considerations of it in meteorology to its general acceptance and applicability across the scientific community. Gleick makes heroes out of Mandelbrot Benoît and the others and weaves an otherworldly charm around their ideas. Gleick gives an unorganized overview some fun mathematical concepts like fractals, strange attractors, and chaos theory. Because of this book, and the many delights that have followed, I am a lover of popular science writing.