Gleick, James

Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. Allan Corduner, Narrator Harperaudio, 2003. 

Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. London, New York Fourth Estate, 2003. xii, 289p. ISBN 0-00-716317-7... 

Gleick, James. Genius. Pantheon Books, New York. 1992. 

Gleick, James. 1988. Chaos Making a New Science. New York Penguin. 

Gleick, James L. Chaos Making a New Science. Rev. ed. New York Penguin Books, 2008. Technical popular account of the development of chaos theory and complexity studies. Topics covered include applications of chaos systems analysis to ecology, mathematics, physics, and psychology. 

Good nontechnical, nonfiction writing can provide a model for exposition. Well-written history and biography (e.g., works by H. W. Brand, Martin Gilbert, Paul Johnson, and William Manchester) are useful for learning to handle time and sequence. Well-written popular science books and novels (e.g., by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Michael Crichton, Steven Levy, and James Gleick) are useful in learning that the presentation of factual information need not be dull. 

Page 103. You don t even have to make cars. . . Levitation Science Brings Magic to Life, by James Gleick in The New York Times, July 7, 1987, Science Times section. 

For an accessible introduction to the fractal logic of living processes, see James Gleick, Chaos Making a New Science (New York Penguin, 1988). 

COMMENT. The solution to the problem of the cause ot the Challenger disaster was the final achievement, just before his death, of Richard Feynman, a Nobei prize winner in physics and a person who ioved to soive probiems. He was an outspoken person who abhorred sham, especially in science and technology. Feynman concluded his personal report on the disaster by saying, For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be tooled (James Gleick, Genius The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Pantheon Books, New York (1992).)... 

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