Author

james gleick

1 award win, 3 nominations across 3 books.

Chaos: Making a New ScienceGenius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanIsaac Newton
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Chaos: Making a New Science

1 Award Won1 Nomination

380 pages

The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot.

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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

1 Nomination
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Awards & Nominations
Pulitzer Prize
1993
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Isaac Newton

1 Nomination
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Pulitzer Prize
2004
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