The book is very beginner friendly as it explains the basic ideas of each method and concept and not the mathematical side of them. It makes me want to dust off my old calculus textbook and pick up a real textbook w/ real numbers/formulae. It's also a...  Read More

The book details a progression of chaos as a science with each idea explained in the chapter before contributing to the next idea. An example is fractals, they are objects with infinite length in a finite space. This phenomenon is most familiar to peo...  Read More

Author james gleick meticulously explains chaos theory and uses images and video illustrations effectively. The book has the right balance of intros, history, contexts, emotions to target each research direction of chaos.

For this mathematically bent, ph. The author presents a couple of absurd examples (perhaps more that others would notice) the book spends a lot of time telling you the back story about how certain achievements were made in the field of science, but wh...  Read More

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. He comes across sounding like moses come down from the mountain carrying the stone tablets of ch...  Read More