James Gleick on Chaos: Making a New Science

“Chaos is a kind of science that deals with the parts of the world that are unpredictable, apparently random . . . disorderly, erratic, irregular, unruly—misbehaved,“ explains James Gleick, author of Chaos: Making a New Science. Gleick, one of the nation’s preeminent science writers, became an international sensation with Chaos, in which he explained how, in the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers upset the rigid foundation of modern scientific thinking by placing new importance on the tiny experimen