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Twentyfive years ago, a young harvard liberalarts 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. A work of popular science in the tradition of stephen hawking and carl sagan, this 20thanniversary edition of james gleicks groundbreaking bestseller chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. The life and science of richard feynman, by james gleick online on bookmate an illuminating portrayal of richard feynmana giant of twentieth century physicsfrom his childhood tinker. Information, communication, and information theory. Chaos making a new science by james gleick pdf free. An illuminating portrayal of richard feynmana giant of twentieth century physicsfrom his childhood tinkering with radi. A history, a theory, a flood,was published in march 2011.
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