Table of Contents

Preface

1) Glimpses of Chaos

2) A Journey Into Chaos

3) Our Chaotic Weather

4) Encounters with Chaos

5) What Else is Chaos

Appendixes - The Butterfly Effect; Mathematical Excursions; A Brief Dynamical-Systems Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"For the personal glimpses of chaos theory development alone, this book is worthwhile; for a clear, sharp development of the subject, the book is excellent; and for tying humanistic and scientific considerations together so well, there is a major debt owed to Lorenz."
*Geophysics*

"Lorenz has produced a wonderfully accessible book on the ideas and story of chaos. The book is superbly written providing delightful intellectual entertainment."
*Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society*

"In giving a nontechnical but careful account of the field of dynamical systems and 'chaos,' and setting it in a broader scientific context, Lorenz has .. communicate[d] the nature of the mathematical sciences and how mathematics contributes to society."
*SIAM Review*

"[A] unique chronicle of the insights of one of the founding fathers of this still burgeoning field."
*American Journal of Physics*