Chaos

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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.

Each stumbling step, each misguided attempt and every remonstration expected in such a new endeavor is traced out in loving detail and these scientists come alive as insecure dramers daring to step beyond the realms of the possible. Half of what draws me to physics, to theory, to Feynman and Fermat, to Wittgenstein and Weber, is the energy that boils beyond the theory. The text remains in print and is widely used as an introduction to the topic for the mathematical layperson. The idea that a scientific idea is dead, generally for good reason (that for example it has been disproven, and thus rejected by the scientific community at large), but how in Maths, an idea can survive, and even be rediscovered, many years after it was first discovered! Having grown up with a computer, I found most points argued in this book painfully obvious common sense.It was a blockbuster bestseller at the time, and it's still well worth reading, a fascinating, enjoyable introduction to one of the most important scientific developments of our time--the birth of chaos theory. James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology.

Sve je to vrlo interesantno, umešno napisano i razborito objašnjeno, ali je i dalje tek za lestvicu iznad laičkog poznavanja teme. Chaos theory is a relatively new field in physics, and deals with simple and complex causes that react to one another. I was never put off by the 'technical' words, thoroughly absorbed the diagrams and as for the coloured designs. The content consists of a few badly written half-biographies, a few pretty pictures and vignettes of science, and no worthwhile mathematics whatsoever.The most interesting chapters were the final two, about the possible application to physiology and then a summary of the concept. 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.

It is wide ranging and covers all the basic topics without muddying the waters with too much detail. Mitchell Feigenbaum, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos in the early seventies, and two other scientists working together independently of him, are working on the problem of turbulence and.Because of this book, and the many delights that have followed, I am a lover of popular science writing. Gleick's book was first published in 1987, so I imagine by now there have been many developments and modifications to the ideas and theories presented here. The amazing pictures and illustrations and the quotes accompanying each chapter all add to the feeling of reading an art text book rather than a science book. Chaos theory is considered as the third revolution in 20th-century science that uses traditional mathematical ways of understanding and explaining complex natural systems.