James Gleick
Birth date: August 01, 1954
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Newton is not much less of a cypher to me after reading this than he was before, which is unfortunate, because what I really wanted was insight into his character. I'm left with the impression of a man with a big, fragile ego, much less a scientist in the modern sense than I expected because of his ...
عندما بدأت الكتاب كنت متحمسة وتوقعت أن يتناول الكتاب علم الفوضى أو النظام اللا منتظم ويسهب في شرح نظريات مشوقه مثل تأثير الفراشة والهندسة التكرارية والأبعاد فوق الثالثلكن كل ما تضمنته هو إسهاب في تاريخ دراسة هذه الظواهر وسلسلة العلماء الذين تبحروا فيها وكرسوا وقتهم وجهدهم لدراستها والرفض الذي لاقته ...
The amount of information (pun acknowledged, but not intended) that James Gleick was able to contain in the book is mind-boggling (Claude Shannon could probably tell you what the physical cost of the logical work my mind did while reading it was, but I, alas, cannot). I'm sure that for those who a...
Two stars for the first half of the book, four stars for the 2nd, so that leaves me at 3 stars for the whole thing.Several of the early essays of this collection focus on the early history of the Royal Society and the philosophy of science. They're very academic, hard to read, and full of RS-relate...
The last half of this book was a 5-star read for me. The first half, with the history of language especially, dragged so much I almost gave up on the book. I'd recommend to others to skip ahead a chapter or two if you feel bogged down -- the book isn't written in so cumulative of a style that you'...
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