Chaos. Creating a new science

Chaos. The creation of a new science ”is the world bestseller of the American journalist James Glick, translated into more than two dozen languages ​​in which he tells the history of the science of chaos. Starting with the accidental discovery of the meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who tried to create a model of long -term weather forecast, Glick sequentially reconstructs the entire chain of sudden insights and unusual experiments that led scientists to the realization that there were still unknown universal laws of nature. Glick not only tells the story of the birth of a new science, but also reflects on how scientific progress occurs and what is the role of crazy geniuses that are engaged in the search for non -standard solutions contrary to the existing knowledge