Chaos: Making a New Science

Chaos: Making a New Science is a landmark account of the history and development of chaos theory, tracing the field from Henri Poincaré's early work on the three-body problem through Edward Lorenz's discovery of the butterfly effect to modern applications in meteorology, biology, and physics. James Gleick weaves together the mathematical breakthroughs, the scientists behind them, and the philosophical questions about predictability and order in a seemingly random world.