Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By Brian Klaas

Book Overview

This "captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world" (Financial Times) is both "empowering" (The New Statesman, UK) and "compelling" (New Scientist)... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399804537
• ISBN13: 9781399804530
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Explores Complexity and Non-Linear Systems Applied to Sociology and Life

As a fan of the Santa Fe Institute and the cutting-edge research of Complexity Science, I found this to be an informative, fun, and provocative read. The author challenges established ways of viewing the world by embracing the unknown, the chaotic, the mysterious. While, in his conclusion, he bends to a more deterministic view of the world, and I bend more to the emergent, his arguments are nevertheless compelling and worth exploring. After I finished reading it, I was inspired to read it again. Lots of food for thought.