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Partendo dal noto "effetto farfalla" - per il quale il battito delle ali di una farfalla a Pechino può scatenare un uragano a New York - James Gleick ripercorre la nascita e lo sviluppo della rivoluzionaria teoria del caos. Se per la scienza tradizionale l'aspetto irregolare della natura è sempre stato un rompicapo, a partire dagli anni Settanta alcuni studiosi iniziano a sperimentare una via per orientarsi nel disordine, scoprendo connessioni...

Gli scrittori e il cinema ne hanno fatto un vero e proprio genere. I filosofi ci si sono spaccati la testa. La scienza li ha studiati. I viaggi nel tempo sono diventati così una vera e propria icona della cultura popolare (e non solo) del Novecento. Tutto è iniziato nel 1895 con «La macchina del tempo» di H.G. Wells e da allora - passando per Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Marcel Proust e Francis Scott Fitzgerald, ma anche Kurt Gödel e Alber...

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A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey." -The Millions "A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction." -Washington Post "A thrilling journey of ideas." -Boston GlobeFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the p...

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were conv...

A mind-bending exploration of time travel, its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. From the author of "The Information" and "Chaos".

James Gleick, the author of the bestseller CHAOS, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The information age is upon us, and citizens of this world have become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of news and images, blogs and twee...

For the past decade change seemed to happen over night, every night. Fueled by the exponential rise of technology, the digital revolution was difficult for many to make sense of, but James Gleick watched and analyzed, criticized and commended, participated in and prophesized about the instantaneous transformations of the world as we knew it. What Just Happened is a collection of Gleick's articles from this equally exciting and terrifying decad...

Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTICFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel-a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travel-from its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick vividly explores physics...

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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 theoryA 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...

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman establish...

Ancora alla soglia degli anni quaranta Claude Shannon usava intelligence per parlare di informazione, un termine che avrebbe cominciato davvero a diffondersi solo qualche anno più tardi, con la sua "Teoria matematica delle comunicazioni", insieme a una parolina, bit, destinata a diventare una delle più pervasive dell'ultimo mezzo secolo. Amata e vituperata, quella parolina segna un punto di passaggio fondamentale: quando l'informazione diventa...

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and informa...

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James Gleick was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College. For ten years he was an editor at the New York Times. Chaos: Making a New Science was a 1987 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominee, and has been translated into eighteen languages. His most recent book is Genius: Richard Feynman and modern physics. He lives in New York with his wife and their son.