Chaos by James Gleick Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick

Although this is a scientific book explaining a new scientific faculty, but the author manages to keep novices like me pretty entertained. It is a story about iconoclast breed of scientists going against the grain. What amazed me that all of the pioneering scientists was not the non-understanding of their papers and presentations bu the amount of hostility they faded by their peers. The deep hostility and prejudice is due to two reasons, the re-discovery of traditional accepted scientific facts in a new light, and the threat to their own works of science which they all relied on for their day to day existence.

Very similar to the experience faced by most prophets preaching their new religion to peers. true heroes.