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    James Gleick (/ɡlɪk/; born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology...
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  • 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...
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  • Gleick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: James Gleick (born 1954), American author, journalist, and biographer Peter Gleick (born...
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  • Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information...
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  • Historian James Gleick rated the paper as the most important development of 1948, placing the transistor second in the same time period, with Gleick emphasizing...
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  • Time Travel: A History is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in 2016, which covers time travel, the origin of idea and of its usage...
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    "Story of Your Life." In The New York Review of Books American author James Gleick said that "Story of Your Life" poses the questions: would knowing your...
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    and the biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick. Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in New York City, to Lucille (née Phillips;...
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  • The character was inspired in part by American historian of science James Gleick and French mathematician Ivar Ekeland. In Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic...
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    existence and/or characteristics of natural scaling laws. Also in 1987 James Gleick published Chaos: Making a New Science, which became a best-seller and...
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  • parents heard obscenities in the Kingsmen recording where none existed. James Gleick states that the mondegreen is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Without...
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    not play a role in Denver's crash. On December 20, 1997, the author James Gleick crash-landed his Long-EZ at Greenwood Lake Airport in West Milford, New...
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  • biographies or in his autobiographies, and is unknown to his biographer, James Gleick. π is conjectured, but not known, to be a normal number. For a normal...
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  • physics at Harvard University Alexander Garvin (1941–2021), urban planner James Gleick (born 1954), science writer. Leopold Godowsky Jr. (1900–1983), co-creator...
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  • there particles!» by H. D. Zeh, Physics Letters A172, 189 (1993). Gleick, James Gleick (October 21, 1986). "Physicists Finally Get To See the Quantum Jump"...
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    Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-02. Gleick, James (1987). Chaos: Making a New Science. Viking. p. 16. ISBN 0-8133-4085-3...
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  • treatise by Ramon Llull Chaos: Making a New Science, a 1987 book by James Gleick CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties...
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    Part B: Methodological. 41 (1): 49–62. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2006.03.001. James Gleick (1988-05-08). "National Gridlock". New York Times. Archived from the...
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  • from 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'. USA Today. October 17, 2002. James Gleick. "Bartlett Updated Archived 2006-12-06 at the Wayback Machine". The New...
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    005. Edward N. Lorenz (1996) The Essence of Chaos ISBN 0-295-97514-8 James Gleick (1988) Chaos: Making a New Science ISBN 0-14-009250-1 Basin of attraction...
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    neural memory traces were added "upon the individual mneme". Nonetheless, James Gleick describes Dawkins's concept of the meme as "his most famous memorable...
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    dystopian James Gleick mentions the remote control being the classic example of technology that does not solve the problem "it is meant to solve". Gleick quotes...
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  • the Bell System Technical Journal in July and October 1948. Historian James Gleick rated the paper as the most important development of 1948, above the...
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    preliminary crewed lunar landing plan". spacenews.com. Retrieved 24 July 2023. James Gleick, "Moon Fever" [review of Oliver Morton, The Moon: A History of the Future;...
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  • James Gleick". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 June 2016. Tim, Radford (27 November 2012). "Royal Society Winton prize for science goes to James Gleick"...
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    Demonstrations of the Rules ... Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 3–. James Gleick (8 June 2004). Isaac Newton. Vintage. ISBN 1400032954. Isaac Newton (1704)...
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    University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861069-4 Gleick, James (5 November 2006). "Cyber-Neologoliferation". James Gleick. Archived from the original on 20 April...
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  • Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, published in 2011, author James Gleick notes that engineers began taking note of the concept of information...
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    turning point for his thinking: 'How Long Is the Coast of Britain'": James Gleick (1988) Chaos: Making a New Science, p.94. ISBN 978-0747404132. Mandelbrot...
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    the US. The time-zone map is a hodgepodge — a jigsaw puzzle by Dalí. James Gleick, The New York Times Arthur C. Clarke proposed the use of a single time...
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