He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. After its demise, he returned to New York and joined as staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter. Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.īorn in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics.
Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and Time Travel: A History. He lives in Key West and New York.James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. 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: A History, a Theory, a Flood, which won the PEN/E. James Gleick was born in New York City in 1954. " Chaos is a feast." - The Washington Post Book World Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch." -Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a startling look at newly discovered universal laws." - Chicago Tribune a fascinating illustration of how the pattern of science changes." - The New York Times Book Review almost every paragraph contains a jolt." - The New York Times In Chaos, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible to beginners, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe.
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's engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick- the author of Time Travel: A History-that reveals the science behind chaos theoryĪ 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.
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