cover image Chaos: Making a New Science

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick. Penguin Books, $20 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009250-9

Gleick here adventurously attempts to describe the revolutionary science of ``chaos,'' a challengingly abstract new look at nature in terms of nonlinear dynamics. ``A ground-breaking book about what seems to be the future of physics,'' praised PW. Illustrated. 100,000 first printing; author tour. (Dec . )