Chaos
by James Gleick
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Gleick chronicles the birth of chaos theory, revealing how tiny changes in initial conditions create wildly unpredictable outcomes. Simple deterministic systems can generate infinite complexity.
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It draws on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
It’s picked up by The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
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Gleick references Kuhn's paradigm shifts for chaos theory.
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Gleick explicitly builds on his own earlier Chaos, extending its argument that information and nonlinearity are fundamental to complex systems into a full history of the information concept.
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