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CHAOS: The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable

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CHAOS: The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable written by James Gleick , published by Vintage Books in 1998 is a popular science book which has been presented in a layman's language. The book takes an attempt to break the artificial boundaries that separate scientific disciplines because science is the global nature of systems and chaos has got together thinkers from various wheels that have been separate. Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working science. James Gleick was science reporter and editor of New York Times. It is written after a long observation of scientific phenomenon and decades of reporting on different science verticals. The book is divided on the basis of different themes of chaos like in the chapter " The Butterfly Effect ", he discusses the story of Edward Lorenz , which talks about the famous Lorenz curve study of weather prediction . The story of how he discovered that the weather behaviour was dependent on the initial co...