It was a blockbuster bestseller at the time, and it's still well worth reading, a fascinating, enjoyable introduction to one of the most important scientific developments of our time--the birth of chaos theory.

Chaos, a book by James Gleick, first introduced the concept and early development of the chaos theory to the public.So I got exactly what I was looking for and now I can talk about chaos theory Jurassic Park style, which is all I wanted. From time to time, on rare occasions, I would form a binary event tree of life and would try to figure out the initial events that accumulated into current condition of life. It is as non-technical as its possible to be in subject of this nature and what mathematical explanations there are, are straight-forward enough to understand. This book tells of the journey of these scientists who challenged this mindset, and went to venture in this unexplored territories of science. It seems to me like this book represents a time in history before people had gotten accustom to handling complexity and information theory in computers.

For me, the real impact is that it has changed the way I look at the ordinary everyday world - the leaves, the trees, the pebbles, the pattern on the peels of an orange - everything is strangely magnified and beautiful now. Numerous theories of Mitchell J Feigenbaum and D'arcy Thompson are discussed in an elaborate manner, while also taking into account their historical background. To tackle this issue, physicists looked at Turbulence, being the complex phenomenon par excellence, an analogy between the start of turbulence in a stream and the phase transition of liquids provided a good start. Newton was okay for some things but all these new equations describe just HOW little uncertainties can create huge chaotic messes.Malcolm's character and ideas are entirely based on this book, he uses the very same examples as Gleick does, sometimes almost word by word. Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. This book has been nominated for numerous book awards and widely acclaimed as one of the best books on chaos theory. 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. Admittedly it was rich in stories of key figures and their personalities, but lacking in a clear and concise explanation of chaos.