Like the best popular science books, this is meant for everyone, written in a straightforward style that has the structure of a novel and the insight of a philosophical treatise.Īnd there are three reasons in particular you should start reading it immediately.ġ. Gleick’s book is the answer, but I can assure you that this book isn’t just for scientists or even science-enthusiasts. That might sound a bit grandiose – after all, with all the different disciplines and subdisciplines of science, how could any one field change all of science? It’s only fitting, given that the science of chaos it describes changed science itself in a permanent and, in my lay opinion, healthy and beautiful way. I was already excited to write a post about James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New Science after mentioning it at the end of my post on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.īut, man, I never expected to like it this much.Ĭhaos is one of those rare books that permanently changes the way you understand the world.
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