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Pros
This book does that exceedingly well. There are newer books that cover knowledge that did not exist at that time. And what happens when a mind breaks out of that straight jacket?
Chaos deals with complexity, whether it be the intricacy of fractal geometry or nonlinear fluid dynamics. This phenomenon is most familiar to people through the 'butterfly effect' which states that a butterfly flapping its wings in asia can create a t... Read More
James gleick dove deep into the chaos theory and provided substantial evidence and understanding for the theory. Gleick does an excellent job of tying all the ideas together.
Cons
Biologists were so mathematically inept that it took a mathematician in the 1970's to apply the logistic growth equation. The author fails to mention the work of malthus (1698) and leonardo of pisa (1202) poor book.
Chaos is far too much opinionated anecdote and far too little science. Very little substantive content but much oh-ing and aw-ing aboutmysteries of chaos. Perhaps all randomness is in a sense chaotic.
Riddled with errors and omissions. As such, it has some value. And before the trolls hit -- usa christians have laws forcing medical doctors to lie to their patients and teachers their students along with all the phony university studies.
Highlights
Quality
Gleick keeps your interest with the human factor and imparts technical information simultaneously
Melds anecdotes of the lives of scientists with the intellectual history of chaos
This is my only rub with the book
Price
Gleick is an unabashed enthusiast so he only discusses the success of chaos science
Competitiveness
I always enjoy reading books about complicated topics that are explained in layman’s terms
Read it many years ago and it taught me new ways at looking at the world
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However one page has three drops of dried blood in it
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I know it is secondhanded but i did not see that coming
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Edit actually after i carefully examined it i think it was coffee instead of blood
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I felt like a number of parts explained things just in words and i got lost
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Some days i could read only a few pages so i could spend the rest of the day to digest the information
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Its very technical and i found the writing to be a bit messy at times
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To be fair i am not an educated man just high school and a four year apprenticeship
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It turns out that small and sometimes not so small deviations from norms in science arent anomalies at alltheyre predictable and many seem to have an order of their own
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