Overdrive rakuten overdrive borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Tri di sti libbra fuorru finalisti ppi lu premiu pulitzer e lu miricanu national book award e foru tradotti nti na vintina di lingui. Lorenz found that among all the chaos, the graph repeated itself, but never overlapped. Chaos can be a tricky concept, but author james gleick writes in a very effective way. Su primer libro, chaos, finalista del us national book award, ha sido traducido a veinticinco idiomas. Awesome predictability of unpredictability, namely sensitive dependence on initial conditions. A history, a theory, a flood is a book by science history writer james gleick published in march 2011 which covers the genesis of our current information age. Comprar libro completo al mejor precio nuevo o segunda mano en casa del libro mexico. By james gleick from the prologue we can see now that information is what our world runs on. Time travel is another of james gleicks superb, unclassifiable booksrich in obscure and illuminating information, laced with lyricism, wit, and startling and convincing insights. One year it was a scientific toy, without infinite possibilities of practical use. James gleick, the author of the best sellers chaos and genius, brings us his crowning work. A history, a theory, a flood is a book written in 2011 by james gleick what the telegraph accomplished in years the telephone has done in months.
A history, a theory, a flood, an international bestseller exploring the genesis and consequences of the information age. A history is a fascinating mashup of philosophy, literary criticism, physics and cultural observation. Resumen librola informacionjames gleick informacion teoria. Charles yu is the author of how to live safely in a science fictional universe, which was named one of the best books of. Chaos is a kind of science that deals with the parts of the world that are unpredictable, apparently random. James gleick has written several popular books about science and technology, including time travel. It pervades the sciences from top to bottom, transforming every branch of knowledge. It is an exploration not only of the theoretical phenomenon of time travel but of our understanding of time itself. Publication date 20140509 usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. J ames gleicks is the author, most recently, of the time travel. His books have been translated into thirty languages. Basically, time travel by james gleick is a big circular overview of how the evolving scientific understanding of the nature of time in.
Historia y realidad del autor james gleick isbn 9788498922974. It won the royal societys winton award for science and the pen hesselltiltman award for history. Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to. Time travel is another of james gleick s superb, unclassifiable booksrich in obscure and illuminating information, laced with lyricism, wit, and startling and convincing insights. I can only imagine how difficult this book would have been to follow, if it was plagued by the longwinded and dry writing that befalls many science books. Mar 30, 2011 chaos is a kind of science that deals with the parts of the world that are unpredictable, apparently random. James gleick natu lu 11 di austu, 1954 eni nauturi, gghiurnalista e biografu, li cui libbra isploranu li ramificazzioni culturali da scenza e da ticnoluggia.
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