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

4.0

Very readable history of a relatively new area of science (arising out of nowhere in the 60s and 70s). A few parts are a bit dense, but Gleick does a good job keeping it interesting as he varies the protagonists every few chapters and attacks the topic from many angles. Most interesting to me was the way he presents scientific resistance to the new theories (from physics, biology, mathematics, etc) and how the ideas slowly gained acceptance and popularity. A history of the way science progresses, even in the modern era, as much as a history of chaos theory itself.