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Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Grant Sanderson loved it affiliate
This is one of my all-time favorite books, closely followed by everything else Gleick has written. It gives an inspiring look at the birth of a new field, and unlike many popular science books, it manages to talk substantively about the math that was being discovered.

on 3blue1brown.com · 1 Jun 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.