Chaos
Making a New Science
by James Gleick
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“@patrickc For example, while trying to find the poetry in tough science for my heredity book, I picked up Chaos by @JamesGleick again. Helped a lot | An excellent book, suffused with poetry. A 20thcentury classic.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Best Science Books, Science, and Nonfiction.
Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaosthe seemingly random patter...
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“@patrickc For example, while trying to find the poetry in tough science for my heredity book, I picked up Chaos by @JamesGleick again. Helped a lot | An excellent book, suffused with poetry. A 20thcentury classic.”
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