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James Gleick

Autor/a de Chaos: Making a New Science

16+ obres 17,848 Membres 317 Ressenyes 29 preferits

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He wrote the worldwide bestseller Chaos, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He was the 1990 McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. (Publisher Provided) James Gleick was born in New York City on August 1, 1954. He received a degree in English and linguistics from mostra'n més Harvard College in 1976. He helped found Metropolis, an alternative weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. After the newspaper folded, he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. In 1989-1990, he was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. He has written several books including Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Beverly Hall

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Très bon niveau même si un peu trop hardue. Dommage aussi qu'il soit trop centré sur la vie des personnes qui ont contribues à cette théorie du chaos
 
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HerveD | Hi ha 63 ressenyes més | Mar 8, 2024 |
A survey of time travel literature alongside a look at how the “science “ evolved along with it. Thoughtful and fun, no intensive understanding of physics needed
 
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cspiwak | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
This book captures a specific period in history where booming technology came with many promises.

Looking back this book foreshadows the problems arising from this technopositive exhuberance whose price is paid in externalities of resource waste and fragmented sense of shared evidence based reality.
 
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yates9 | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Feb 28, 2024 |
I really enjoyed the insight into the person of Feynman. He was, as any other physicist, a human with positive and negative characteristics. This is an important book because it captures this balance, which I believe is intrinsic to any "Genius" because the term focuses on some exceptional characteristics while ignoring the rest of the person.

The mental patterns I found most interesting in how Feynman thought were his reliance on fundamental characteristics of a physical relation and to visualize this in a way that he could gain a personal insight into the big picture of what was going on. He cared more about the units of measurement in a relation than the values. This is an example of what we might call genius because it is an unconventional focus on how to do physics.

And yes of course the maverick was also a bit of an asshole. I think anyone that dedicates that much time and energy to abstract processing suffers a price in social value alignment.
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yates9 | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Feb 28, 2024 |

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