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Human consciousness itself seems to be an example of a chaotic, endlessly selfreferential. In the words of gleick in his 2008 afterword to chaos, a new generation of scientists has come along, armed with a more robust set of assumptions about how nature works. Gleicks most renowned writing falls into one of two categories. A historythat reveals the science behind chaos theory 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. Jan 16, 2015 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 story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes. What just happened by james gleick books the guardian. In chaos, he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos the seemingly random patterns that characterize many natural phenomena. The book was published on october 29, 1987 by viking books. A work of popular science in the tradition of stephen hawking and carl sagan, this 20thanniversary 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 in our time. Gleick graduated from harvard college, one of two major schools located within harvard university, in 1976. For ten years he was an editor at the new york times. Isaac newton isbn 9781400032952 pdf epub james gleick ebook. I n 1987 i got my bachelor of science in physics, prozac was launched in the us, and james gleick published chaos.