📚 Chaotic Behavior in Systems

Books with chaotic behavior in systems on their catalogue record, first published between 1965 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject chaotic behavior in systems in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,599 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chaos	James Gleick	1987	37
	Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos	Steven H. Strogatz	1994	19
	The (mis)behavior of markets	Benoît B. Mandelbrot	2004	12
	The Collapse of Chaos	Jack Cohen	1994	11
	A gentle plea for chaos	Mirabel Osler	1989	10
	Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences	David Byrne	2002	10
	Nature's Chaos	James Gleick	1990	9
	Symmetry in chaos	Mike Field	1992	9
	Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1	Gaetan Kerschen	2019	9
	Sensitive Chaos	Theodor Schwenk	1965	8
	Fractals for the classroom	Heinz-Otto Peitgen	1991	8
	Complexity	Roger Lewin	1992	8
	The arrow of time	Peter Coveney	1990	7
	Ubiquity	Mark Buchanan	2000	7
	Mechanics	Florian Scheck	2006	7
	The topology of chaos	Robert Gilmore	2007	7
	The chaos theory of careers	Robert Pryor	2011	7
	Deterministic chaos	Heinz Georg Schuster	1984	6
	Fractals for the classroom	Heinz-Otto Peitgen	1991	6
	Newton's Clock	Ivars Peterson	1993	6
	Seven life lessons of chaos	John Briggs	2000	6
	Indra's pearls	David Mumford	2002	6
	Qualitative Complexity	John Smith	2006	6
	Chaotic modelling and simulation: analysis of chaotic models, attractors and forms	Christos H. Skiadas	2008	6
	Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology	James McGlade	2010	6
	Microscopic Dynamics of Plasmas and Chaos	Y. Elskens	2003	5
	Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems	Robert Devaney	2008	5
	Universality in Chaos, 2nd Edition	P. Cvitanovic	2017	5
	Uncertainty	Ian Stewart	2019	5
	Chaos and Synchronization	Subir Das	2019	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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