A review by drew2718
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

2.0

Sort of interesting. It was nice to meet some of the personalities that pioneered the study of complex systems. But Gleick never went deep enough into explaining the discoveries themselves—instead he settled for reveling in subjective, high-level assessments of the significance of the discoveries. Though, I suppose if Gleick did get more technical I’d become worried by the “igon value problem.” Maybe I should just stop reading math books written by non-mathematicians.

To those that criticize the book as being a compendium of disconnected biographies: Huh? Gleick does a good job calling back to Lorenz, Mandelbrot, Feigenbaum, etc. in the chapters about the scientists that progressed their work.