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The birth of mathematics, rediscovered

November 26, 2010

In New York, for a short time only, a beautiful exhibition devoted to the birth of mathematics on cuneiform tablets in ancient Babylon, a millennium before the Greeks. I touch on this story in The Information: how this first mathematical flowering vanished into the sands, only to be rediscovered in modern times. The pioneering scholar […]

Faster (the movie)

November 25, 2010

I know what you’re wondering, and no, Faster is not based on my book, and I was not consulted. This should have been a dead giveaway:

My lucky day

November 19, 2010

I am in Dear Book Lover. (The question, not the answer.)

About James Gleick

March 21, 2010

James Gleick’s is the author, most recently, of the Time Travel: A History. His previous book was  The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, an international bestseller exploring the genesis and consequences of the information age. It won the Royal Society’s Winton award for science and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman award for history. Gleick was born in […]

Chaos

March 20, 2001

Chaos: Making a New Science (Viking 1987) “An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch.” —Douglas Adams “This is a stunning work, a deeply exciting subject in the hands of a first-rate science writer. The implications of the research James Gleick sets forth are breathtaking.” —Barry Lopez […]

Genius

March 19, 2001

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Pantheon 1992). A rare, jewel-like biography… terrifically readable. It achieves an almost perfect balance between the physicist’s work and his life. —Washington Post Book World Mesmerizing. A stimulating adventure in the annals of science. The New York Times A thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds […]

Faster

March 19, 2001

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Pantheon 1999). “In years to come Faster will tell people what we were like as clearly as Dickens or Tom Wolfe.” —Patricia Volk, The New York Times.

Isaac Newton

March 19, 2001

Isaac Newton (Pantheon 2003). "A masterpiece of brevity and concentration. Isaac Newton sees its angular subject in the round, presenting him as scientist and magician, believer and heretic, monster and man.... It will surely stand as the definitive study for a very long time to come. Fortunate Newton!" —John Banville, The Guardian

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