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A review by p9ng
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
4.0
Not having read this when it was popular in the 90's, I am catching up. I think the excitement over expanding physical science to recognize, I guess you would say, 'non-linear' experimental results - has quieted down a lot since then.
The book tries to bring a common perspective to a recognition in many fields that there is a set of results, within limited bounds, that appear consistent and relate the experimental input and it's output in coherent terms that can be modeled. However, at the boundaries of these predictable results everything goes haywire (the results become unpredictable). That is where chaos theory steps in.
The book tries to bring a common perspective to a recognition in many fields that there is a set of results, within limited bounds, that appear consistent and relate the experimental input and it's output in coherent terms that can be modeled. However, at the boundaries of these predictable results everything goes haywire (the results become unpredictable). That is where chaos theory steps in.