Chaos - James Gleick
CHAOS
Making a New Science
James Gleick
To Cynthia
human was the music,
natural was the static…
—JOHN UPDIKE
Contents
Prologue
The Butterfly Effect
Edward Lorenz and his toy weather. The computer misbehaves. Long-range forecasting is doomed. Order masquerading as randomness. A world of nonlinearity. “We completely missed the point.”
Revolution
A revolution in seeing. Pendulum clocks, space balls, and playground swings. The invention of the horseshoe. A mystery sol ...