What took so long? James Gleick's classic popularization "Chaos ..." came out in 1987. Many other books have followed at all levels, from easy-to-read self-study up to unintelligible topological dynamics. Thanks to Prof. Fishwick, we finally have a first-rate Handbook on a subject invented by Isaac Newton, though anticipated by Archimedes and Claudius Ptolemy. (Classical mechanics is NON-linear, relativity and quantum mechanics slightly more so.) This Handbook is really an anthology that presents a lot of the advances of dynamic systems analysis into a host of subject areas, as well as some new methodologies. For something more like a traditional handbook, a collection of algorithms and recipes, there is the Numerical Recipes series, complete with source code. Enjoy! Compute! Publish! Win glorious international recognition. You now have the giants upon whose shoulders you can stand to be able see farther. Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing