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Chaos von James Gleick
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Chaos (1988. Auflage)

von James Gleick

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The "highly entertaining" New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information (Chicago Tribune). For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones--and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us. With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is "a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of physics" by a writer who has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the author of Time Travel: A History and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Publishers Weekly).… (mehr)
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Titel:Chaos
Autoren:James Gleick
Info:Penguin Paperbacks (1988), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 368 pages
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Tags:20th century, chaos theory, history, mathematics, nature, non-fiction, own, physics, popular science, science, unread

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Chaos: die Ordnung des Universums von James Gleick

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    Die kreative Kraft des Chaos von John Briggs (SandraArdnas)
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    Anti - Chaos. Der Pfeil der Zeit in der Selbstorganisation des Lebens. von Peter Coveney (Sylak)
    Sylak: I purchased these two books as companion reads. Others may find this a useful pairing too.
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  davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |
Très bon niveau même si un peu trop hardue. Dommage aussi qu'il soit trop centré sur la vie des personnes qui ont contribues à cette théorie du chaos ( )
  HerveD | Mar 8, 2024 |
A very intuitive and expressive way of explaining "The Butterfly Effect" - is what impressed me first about this book, while the detailing on the Logistic Map is the close second.

If you miss understanding what a "fractal" is, you might find the rest of the book quite boring - happened to me over a couple of chapters, so I had to track back where I "lost it" and reread from there.

Chaos Theory is mind-numbing and yet charmingly elegant. It'd be very frustrating to NOT know what actually cause something OR how some outcome can't be reproducible - but the world is filled with such events. ( )
  nmarun | Dec 10, 2023 |
Like Entangled Life, it took me a while to finish this because it encompasses so many different fields that I'd stop all the time to check references. This is not a criticism of the book, though: James Gleick describes how scientists in areas as disparate as meteorology and the study of cardiac arrhythmia were able to make an impact by showing simple chaotic models that reproduce features of very real systems which were previously thought to be too random to understand. I find that pretty amazing.

While I'd have preferred a slightly more technical book, I've found that Gleick is really good at making layman explanations without being condescending. He also interviewed a lot of people and out of it he made a really compelling story of how the field developed. I particularly liked how he highlights the massive resistance the first people who studied chaos encountered. Nonlinear systems have historically been (and still are to this day) something of a footnote because analytic treatment of them is impossible, which makes theoretical scientists unenthusiastic. And the more practical scientists are also unlikely to be receptive because incorporating a dynamic systems approach to their study requires interdisciplinary work. ( )
  fegolac | Aug 31, 2023 |
Chaos was all the rage when I read Gleick's book. It's just part of the zeitgeist now. ( )
  mykl-s | Jun 4, 2023 |
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The "highly entertaining" New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information (Chicago Tribune). For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones--and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us. With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is "a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of physics" by a writer who has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the author of Time Travel: A History and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Publishers Weekly).

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