Chaos: Making a New Science

The New York Times–bestselling explanation of chaos theory that became a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist. Over a million copies sold!

For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. 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. In the 1960s, a sm...