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MAKING A NEW SCIENGE ‘James Gleick, a New York Times science reporter and author of the hot-selling new book Chaos: Making a New Science has done nothing less than “change our attitudes about how the world works” Newsweek ‘An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual world … Attractive and accessible to a lay audience.” John Naughton Observer , ‘Unlike relativity and quantum mechanics, chaos is a science of everyday things — of art and economics, of biological rhythms and traffic jams, of waterfalls and weather. Curiously, the very familiarity of these phenomena makes the new discoveries more difficult to comprehend and absorb. Almost every one of Mr Gleick’s paragraphs contains a jolt, and the urge to reread them is strong. The questions they instil in the reader do not arise from lack of understanding or clarity; rather, they spring from the revolutionary nature of the material — can I believe what [just read? Can this really be true?’ The New York Times ‘An excellent history.” Sunday Telegraph “The first popularly written book about this fascinating, rapidly growing discipline. It is a splendid introuzction. Not only does it explain accurately and skilfully the fundamentals of chaos theory, but it sketches the colourful history, with entertaining anecdotes