· The author of Chaos confronts personal tragedy and the meaning of time. James Gleick is one of America's most popular and lucid science writers, . JAMES GLEICK Author of Genius: The Life and. Science of Richard Feynman. The Butterfly Effect Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, 14 CHAOS along a deterministic path, rule-bound like the planets, predictable like eclipses and tides. In theory a computer could let meteorol. James Gleick’s is the author, most recently, of the Time Travel: A History. His previous book was The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, an international bestseller exploring the genesis.
Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in , and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in The book was published on Octo by Viking Books. James Gleick (born August 1, ) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages. JAMES GLEICK Author of Genius: The Life and. Science of Richard Feynman. The Butterfly Effect Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, 14 CHAOS along a deterministic path, rule-bound like the planets, predictable like eclipses and tides. In theory a computer could let meteorol.
JAMES GLEICK Author of Genius: The Life and. Science of Richard Feynman. 14 CHAOS along a deterministic path, rule-bound like the planets, predictable. A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz’s discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum’s calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick. by James Gleick ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. Twenty-five years ago, a young Harvard liberal-arts graduate named James Gleick, then working for the New York Times, became fascinated by an emerging body of science that examined the world not as an orderly chain of being but as a complex, scarcely predictable, sometimes scarcely comprehensible mess of events.
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