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May 09, 2012 james gleick author of a halfdozen books on science, technology, and culture discusses his latest book the information. How butterflies cause hurricanes the new york times. See all books authored by james gleick, including chaos. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read chaos. James gleick is our leading chronicler of science and technology, and the author of chaos and genius, both nominated for the national book award, and isaac newton, which was shortlisted for the pulitzer prize.
To accomplish that he opens the book by discussing the advent of drumming, signals, telegraph, telephone and the computer. John banville james gleick is a master historian of ideas no one else can do what he does. It is an exploration not only of the theoretical phenomenon of time travel but of our understanding of time itself. James gleick, science writer, author of chaos 1987, a major international bestseller about the math and science of chaos theory, will read from his new book, the information 2011, a high praised popular history of information technology,march 3, 2011 at 8.
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The millioncopy bestseller by national book award nominee and pulitzer prize finalist james gleickthe author of time travel. In an ambitious and largely successful essay in popularization, james gleick, a science reporter for the new york times, has written a taut and exciting account of how this now fashionable field of study has emerged within the past 20 years from a ragbag of unsolved and often shamefully neglected problems in science and mathematics. Recent and archived work by james gleick for the new york times. It was a finalist for the national book award and the pulitzer prize in 1987, and was shortlisted for the science book prize in 1989.
James gleick author of a halfdozen books on science, technology, and culture discusses his latest book the information. Making a new science by james gleick 1988, paperback. A history, a theory, a flood seeks to place information in historical context. A history that reveals the science behind chaos theory a work of popular science in the tradition of stephen hawking and carl sagan, this 20thanniversary edition of james gleick s groundbreaking bestseller chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory. James gleick is an author and essayist who writes about science and technology and their cultural consequences. The genius of machine toolsas opposed to mere machineslies in their repeatability. What makes precision a feature of the modern world is the transition from craftsmanship to mass production. In his enthralling new book, james gleick mounts h. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for the new york times, founded an early internet portal, the pipeline, and has written several books of popular science, including the information. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 352 pages and is available in paperback format. James gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. He graduated from harvard college in 1976 and helped found metropolis, an alternative weekly newspaper in minneapolis. Elon musk is marketing moon trips to the superrich, and jeff bezos says we should colonize the moon to save the earth. May 17, 2011 james gleicks new book, the information.
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