James Gleick

Chaos: Making a New Science


2. Revolution

Review of Kuhn's account of scientific revolutions.

Card suit experiment.

Normal science = puzzle solving under shared assumptions

Revolution:

This pattern is realized by the chaos revolution:

Reprise of Kuhn on pendulum:

Stephen Smale: a Berkeley mathematician revisits the pendulum (a few years before Lorenz's discovery).

20 yrs later: Great red spot of Jupiter