James Gleick
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James Gleick is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time".
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Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date.
James Gleick (2002). What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier, p. 19 cited in: George Stepanek (2005), Software
It was God who breathed life into matter and inspired its many textures and processes. ...Rather than turn away from what he could not explain, he plunged in more deeply.
James Gleick, Isaac Newton (2003)
Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, "meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional.
p. 23 as cited in John A. Rush (1996), Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts, p. 75
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Margaret MacMillanAlso won Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Leonard MlodinowAlso won PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Richard OveryAlso won Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Carl HartAlso won PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
David OlusogaAlso won Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Siddhartha MukherjeeAlso won PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardAbout this person
James Gleick is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time". He is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm.
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