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KUDOS FOR CHAOS
"Highly entertaining ... a startling look at newly discovered universal laws" —Chicago
Tribune Book World
"I was caught up and swept along by the flow of this astonishing chronicle of scientific thought. It has been
a long, long time since I finished a book and immediately started reading it all over again for sheer
pleasure."
—Lewis Thomas, author of Lives of a Cell
"Chaos is a book that deserves to be read, for it chronicles the birth of a new scientific technique that may
someday be important." —The Nation
"Gleick's Chaos is not only enthralling and precise, but full of beautifully strange and strangely beautiful
ideas."
—Douglas Hofstadter, author of Godel, Escher, Bach
"Taut and exciting ... it is a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Admirably portrays the cutting edge of thought"
—Los Angeles Times
"This is a stunning work, a deeply exciting subject in the hands of a first-rate science writer. The
implications of the research James Gleick sets forth are breathtaking."
—Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams
"An ambitious and largely essful popular science book that deserves wide readership" —
Chicago Sun-Times
"There is a teleological grandeur about this new math that gives the imagination wings."
—Vogue
"It is a splendid introduction. Not only does it explain accurately and skillfully the fundamentals of chaos
theory, but it also sketches the theory's colorful history, with entertaining anecdotes about its pioneers and
provocative asides about the philosophy of science and mathematics."
—The Boston Sunday Globe
PENGUIN BOOKS CHAOS
James Gleick was born in New York City and lives there with his wife, Cynthia Crossen.
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