Overall a great book for people who like physics, math, theory, and thought. The book doesn't just introduce the people who's research led to choas theory it takes one through the basics of thier experiements and results.
I enjoyed the real world examples and the journey through much of the research that led up to choas theory. Maybe one or two times however, it wasn't really needed to keep up with the flow of the story. Overall, there were not too many parts where I could not keep up with the math. but that was only about three times during the nine hour book. I dealt with this by looking them on online later. As with any audio math book, there are some parts where you might have trouble visualizing the shapes being described. It introduces one to the culture of Math and the real world applications of physics. It helps to show what types of problems they work on and how they think as they attack the problems. I'm a math major and a calculus two student and this book has helped me to get inside the thinking of a Mathematician.
I had no idea that this was a book about both math and physics. 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 ).Wow. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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