14 must-read science books like Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle

Cover of Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle

Chance and Chaos

By: David Ruelle

3.69

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this q…

If you liked the science plot in Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

1. The Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

4.01

Format: 703 pages, Hardcover

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more

Similar categories in Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Cover of Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

2. Chaos: Making a New Science

By: James Gleick

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more

Similar categories in James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

Cover of Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, None

3. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By: Stephen Hawking , Kip S. Thorne , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very …"

-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Cover of Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann

4. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Robinson Crusoe book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

5. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

Similar categories in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Cover of The New Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein

6. The New Quotable Einstein

By: Albert Einstein

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

For the first time in paperback, here is a newly expanded edition of the best-selling book that was… read more

Similar categories in Albert Einstein's The New Quotable Einstein book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
Cover of Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann

7. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

Similar categories in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

Cover of The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh

8. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical… read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything by George Musser

9. Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

By: George Musser

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it'… read more

Similar categories in George Musser's Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science

10. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

By: Richard P. Feynman , Roger Penrose

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Richard P. Feynman's Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
Cover of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by None

11. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Audio CD

How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more

Similar categories in None's Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Çalıkuşu by Reşat Nuri Güntekin

12. Çalıkuşu

By: Reşat Nuri Güntekin

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Calikusu ilk kez 1922 yilinda Vakit gazetesinde tefrika edilmis ve ayni yil kitap olarak basilmisti… read more

Similar categories in Reşat Nuri Güntekin's Çalıkuşu book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

Cover of The Little Book of Black Holes by Steven S. Gubser, Frans Pretorius

13. The Little Book of Black Holes

By: Steven S. Gubser , Frans Pretorius

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holes Black holes, predicted by Albert… read more

Similar categories in Steven S. Gubser's The Little Book of Black Holes book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
Cover of Mother Courage and Her Children by David Hare, Bertolt Brecht

14. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

Similar categories in David Hare's Mother Courage and Her Children book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

Cover of The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Gary Saul Morson

15. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

16. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe

By: Steven Weinberg

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general… read more

Similar categories in Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

Cover of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Phạm Văn Thiều, None

17. A Brief History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None

4.21

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"God abhors a naked singularity."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

18. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

Similar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

19. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

Similar categories in Byung-Chul Han's The Burnout Society book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

20. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Othello book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

Cover of The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, D.P. Costello

21. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

Similar categories in Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

22. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

Similar categories in Stefan Zweig's Chess Story book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

23. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) by Cormac McCarthy

24. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

Cover of Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

25. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

Similar categories in Carlo Rovelli's Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

Cover of White Holes by Carlo Rovelli

26. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

Similar categories in Carlo Rovelli's White Holes book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
Cover of The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

27. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

Similar categories in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • popular science
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

28. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

Similar categories in Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

Cover of Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle

29. Chance and Chaos

By: David Ruelle

3.69

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this q… read more

Similar categories in David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
Cover of Principles for Success by Ray Dalio

30. Principles for Success

By: Ray Dalio

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining, illustrated adaptation of Ray Dalio’s Principles Principles for Success distill… read more

Similar categories in Ray Dalio's Principles for Success book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fundamentals of Drawing: A Complete Professional Course for Artists by Barrington Barber

31. The Fundamentals of Drawing: A Complete Professional Course for Artists

By: Barrington Barber

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Fundamentals of A Complete Professional Course for Artists The Fundamentals of Drawing is a cl… read more

Similar categories in Barrington Barber's The Fundamentals of Drawing: A Complete Professional Course for Artists book and David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos

  • nonfiction

17 best-selling philosophy books like Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle

Transform Your Habits

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Stephen Hawking , Kip S. Thorne , None

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The New Quotable Einstein

Albert Einstein

4.29

View all the books

15 Top fiction books like Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Transform Your Habits

Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe

Gottfried Keller

3.02

Transform Your Habits

Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Joseph von Eichendorff , Konrad Nussbächer

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess

Juli Zeh

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Die Physiker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.