With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is 'a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of physics' by a writer who has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the author of Time Travel: A History and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman ( Publishers Weekly ). In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us.

Thus they collaborated on this project about which Porter says: 'The images selected for this book are mostly details of nature which emphasize how nature's apparent disorder can be reduced to aesthetically. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones-and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. Eliot Porter tells of reading James Gleick's book, Chaos, and thinking that so many of his own photographs illustrated nature's chaos. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. 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.

But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. 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. For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. The 'highly entertaining' New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information ( Chicago Tribune ).

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