I remember reading about him in Chaos: Making a New Science where James Gleick portrayed him as a young man. That was in the late 1980s when I was a high school student. Time flies :(
Great book, I read it a bunch of times. It made chaos theory really accessible even to a highschooler.
I read the same book. I felt it was very useful. I remember a homework assignment to calculate bearing under various conditions. One of them wouldn't solve and I realized it was because the conditions produced chaotic behavior. So of course you couldn't produce a closed form solution.
I was pleased with that book indeed.
I highly recommend Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven Strogatz.
I first read that book when I was 13 and I still go back for another read every few years. Not only did it make the subject accessible, it didn't over simplify. The stories of the people making the discoveries kept it personal and engaging throughout, and Feigenbaum's chapter(s) were my favorite. After finishing the book, you never see the world the same way again.