Chaos

James Gleick's Chaos, and many of the works of Santa Fe Institute members, including John C. Holland, J. Doyne Farmer, Geoffrey West, W. Brian Arthur, David Krakauer, and Sander van der Leeuw, continue these themes.

on HN, 2016

It's clear and presents the science and its personalities in an engaging way.

on HN, 2022

Maybe not the best book for understanding chaos theory, but I have not stopped seeing stochastic patterns and applying concepts of fractal geometry to things I come across in life as I attempt to wrap my mind around some of the deeply complex phenomena in the universe.

on HN, 2015

hmmh, what I got out of it was a little different ... simple deterministic systems can have surprisingly complex emergent behavior that is quite hard to predict.

on HN, 2022

What he wrote about the edges of science and how scientific rebels think about their fields blew my mind when I read it in my teens, and it started the closest thing to a religion that has taken hold in my mind: a kind of Pantheist vision of how a fully deterministic universe can lead to an infinite, confusing, and beautiful world, with mathematical inevitability and precision rather than by some kind of magic.

on HN, 2019

Chaos: Making a New Science [ http://amzn.to/1fbmC73 ] still makes an awesome read despite its age.

on HN, 2013