James GleickDec 22, 2022

I’m an author and journalist, hopeful about the #TwitterMigration.

I write about science and technology and their cultural effects. My books include Chaos, The Information, and Time Travel, as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton.

I’m working on a history of the telephone.

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Show threadNicole RustDec 22, 2022

@JamesGleick

👆​ Who else owned and loved the book Chaos (1987)? 🙋​

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science

Chaos: Making a New Science - Wikipedia

Show threadKevin MitchellDec 23, 2022
@NicoleCRust @JamesGleick Yeah, loved it! Read it in my grandparent's house when I was about 16, maybe... Left a lasting impression and has influenced my thinking ever since.
Show threadBjörn BrembsDec 23, 2022

@WiringtheBrain @NicoleCRust @JamesGleick
Yup, me too. Read it around the time i graduated from High School. At that time, 1990, there was still military service in Germany and I remember reading it at night while I was standing (sitting, actually) guard and nobody was around.

I still have the book and -little did I know- it turned out to be really useful for my research decades later.

Show threadLuiz PessoaDec 23, 2022
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@WiringtheBrain @NicoleCRust @JamesGleick
Read it in college soon after it came out. At the same time close friends were doing graduate research in dynamical systems. So yeah, everything clicked for me from that point on!
Show threadMarek McGann
@PessoaBrain @brembs @WiringtheBrain @NicoleCRust @JamesGleick Read it over a summer working relief in a very quiet local branch of a building society. Was a gateway drug for sure.
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