Chaos: Making a New Science
 20th-anniversary edition | |
| Author | James Gleick |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Popular science |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
Publication date | October 29, 1987 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 400 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-7493-8606-1 |
| OCLC | 59649776 |
| LC Class | Q172.5.C45 G54 1987 |
| Followed by | Nature's Chaos |
Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public.[1] It was a finalist for the National Book Award[2] and the Pulitzer Prize[3] in 1987, and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989.[4] The book was published on October 29, 1987 by Viking Books.
Overview
[edit]Chaos: Making a New Science was the first popular book about chaos theory. It describes the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Lorenz attractors without using complicated mathematics. It portrays the efforts of dozens of scientists whose separate work contributed to the developing field. The text remains in print and is widely used as an introduction to the topic for the mathematical layperson. The book approaches the history of chaos theory chronologically, starting with Edward Norton Lorenz and the butterfly effect, through Mitchell Feigenbaum, and ending with more modern applications.
The book covers chaos theory under the lens of four themes: sensitive dependence on initial conditions, self-similarity, universality, and nonlinearity.[5]
An enhanced ebook edition was released by Open Road Media in 2011, adding embedded video and hyperlinked notes.[6]
Reception
[edit]Robert Sapolsky said, "Chaos is the first book since Baby Beluga where I've gotten to the last page and immediately started reading it over again from the front: I've found this to be the most influential book in my thinking about science since college."[7]
Freeman Dyson praised the book for its popular account but critiqued the omitting of the earlier work of Dame Mary L. Cartwright and J. E. Littlewood in forming the foundation of chaos theory.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction". Archived from the original on August 5, 2013.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1987". Chaos: Making a New Science. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ "1988 Finalists". Chaos:Making a new Science. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ "Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted Entries". Chaos. The Royal Society. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ Lewis, Michael (1989). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". Human Development. 32 (3/4): 241–244. ISSN 0018-716X. JSTOR 26767401.
- ^ Maynard, Andrew (9 April 2011). "James Gleick's Chaos – the enhanced edition". Review. 2020 Science. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ^ Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology on YouTube
- ^ Frenkel, Karen A. (1 February 2007). "Why Aren't More Women Physicists?". Scientific American. 296 (2): 90–92. Bibcode:2007SciAm.296b..90F. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0207-90. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
Further reading
[edit]- Devaney, Robert L. (November 1989). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". The College Mathematics Journal. 20 (5): 458–459. doi:10.2307/2686940. ISSN 0746-8342. JSTOR 2686940.
- Gans, Joshua (December 1989). "Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Cardinal, London, 1989) pp. 352, $14.99, ISBN 0-7474-0413-5". Prometheus. 7 (2): 412–415. doi:10.1080/08109028908629102. ISSN 0810-9028.
- Balazs, Nandor (March 1989). "Chaos: Making a New Science. James Gleick". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 64 (1): 112–113. doi:10.1086/416224. ISSN 0033-5770.
- Lewis, Michael (1989). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". Human Development. 32 (3/4): 241–244. ISSN 0018-716X. JSTOR 26767401.
- Loevinger, Lee (Summer 1988). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". Jurimetrics. 28 (4): 505–509. ISSN 0897-1277. JSTOR 29762101.
- Friedrich, Paul (Winter 1988). "Eerie Chaos and Eerier Order". Journal of Anthropological Research. 44 (4): 435–444. doi:10.1086/jar.44.4.3630508. ISSN 0091-7710. JSTOR 3630508. S2CID 171222927.
- Balazs, Nandor (March 1989). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 64 (1): 112–113. doi:10.1086/416224. ISSN 0033-5770. JSTOR 2831779.
- Rucker, Rudy (1 November 1987). "Patterns of Disorder". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- Shlesinger, Michael F. (March 1988). "Book review: Chaos: Making a new science". Journal of Statistical Physics. 50 (5–6): 1285–1286. Bibcode:1988JSP....50.1285S. doi:10.1007/BF01019170. ISSN 0022-4715. S2CID 122110686.
- Kendig, Frank (1987-10-15). "Books: Third Scientific Revolution of the Century (Published 1987)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- Glazier, James; Gunaratne, Gemunu (February 1988). "Chaos: Making a New Science". Physics Today. 41 (2): 79. Bibcode:1988PhT....41b..79G. doi:10.1063/1.2811320. ISSN 0031-9228.
- Pepinsky, Hal (Spring 1990). "Reproducing Violence: A Review Essay". Social Justice. 17 (1 (39)): 155–172. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29766530.
- Hilborn, Robert C. (November 1988). "Chaos, Making a New Science". American Journal of Physics. 56 (11): 1053–1054. Bibcode:1988AmJPh..56.1053G. doi:10.1119/1.15345. ISSN 0002-9505.
- Dritschel, D. G. (July 1990). "Chaos: Making a New Science. By J. Gleick . Viking, 1987. 352 pp. $19.95 (hardback); Cardinal, 1988. £5.99 (paperback)". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 216: 657–658. Bibcode:1990JFM...216..657D. doi:10.1017/S002211209021057X. ISSN 0022-1120. S2CID 121316639.
- Radzicki, Michael J. (Winter 1989). "Chaos: Making a new science James Gleick New York: Viking, 1987". System Dynamics Review. 5 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1002/sdr.4260050111.
- Balachandran, Balakumar; Hogan, John (June 1999). "Featured Review: So You Have Been Asked to Give a Lecture Course on the Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics..." SIAM Review. 41 (2): 375–382. ISSN 0036-1445. JSTOR 2653080.
- "Chaos: Making a new science". Long Range Planning. 22 (5): 152. October 1989. doi:10.1016/0024-6301(89)90186-6.
- "Book Reviews". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 40 (3): 845–946. June 1992. doi:10.1177/000306519204000308. ISSN 0003-0651. S2CID 221013603.
- Meisel, Martin (Spring 1988). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". The Wilson Quarterly. 12 (2): 138–140. ISSN 0363-3276. JSTOR 40257307.
- Bolch, Ben W. (January 1989). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". Southern Economic Journal. 55 (3): 779–780. doi:10.2307/1059589. ISSN 0038-4038. JSTOR 1059589.
- Mahncke, Frank C. (Summer 1988). "Review of Chaos: Making a New Science". Naval War College Review. 41 (3): 118–119. ISSN 0028-1484. JSTOR 44640030.
- Artigiani, Robert (Winter 1990). "Review of Chaos: Making A New Science". Naval War College Review. 43 (1): 133–136. ISSN 0028-1484. JSTOR 44638368.
- "Chaos: 2the Making of a New Science". Publishers Weekly. 20 October 1987. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Chaos: Making a New Science". Publishers Weekly. December 1988. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- Burns, David (22 November 1987). "Computer 'Chaos'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
External links
[edit]- Excerpts
- Selection from the prologue Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Website of James Gleick
