James Gleick
Sign in to saveAmerican author and historian of science (born 1954)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- August 1, 1954
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Nature's Chaos
- Chaos X10 S/W Whs
- Genius Hb S/Wx10
- Genius Pb Tsp
- Genius B D/Bx18
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 377
- Total plays
- 6,089
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/james+gleick">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,845x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,086x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,943x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,219x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Amid the vast modern network of universities, corporate laboratories, and national science foundations has arisen an awareness that the best financed and best organized of research enterprises have not learned to engender, perhaps not even to recognize, world-tuning originality.”
- “Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date. They are machines with far more moving parts than any engine: the parts don't wear out, but they interact and rub up against one another in ways the programmers themselves cannot predict.”
- “Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, "meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional. Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph"”
- “Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph. Linear relationships are easy to think about....Linear equations are solvable... Linear systems have an important modular virtue: you can take them apart, and put them together again — the pieces add up.”
- “In the thousands of articles that made up the technical literature of chaos, few were cited more often than "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow." For years, no single object would inspire more illustrations, even motion pictures, than the mysterious curve depicted at the end, the double spiral that became known as the Lorenz attractor.”
- “Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- around.com
- Image
- James Gleick color.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1954-08-01
- social media followers
- 18329
- Commons category
- James Gleick
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Connections
The Wall Street Journal
Entity
EarthLink
Company
United States
Country
Wikipedia
Concept
New York City
City
Isaac Newton
Person
YouTube
Concept
Artificial intelligence
Concept
Microsoft
Entity
International Standard Book Number
Entity
Tim Berners-Lee
Entity
World Wide Web
Entity
Richard Feynman
Entity
Harvard University
Entity
Minneapolis
Concept
Amazon
Entity
reason
Entity
The New York Times
Entity
The Guardian
Entity
digital object identifier
Entity
Categories
1954 births20th-century American biographers21st-century American biographersAmerican essayistsAmerican male biographersAmerican male essayistsAmerican male journalistsAmerican science journalistsAmerican science writersHarvard College alumniLiving peoplePeople appearing on C-SPANPeople from Garrison, New YorkSurvivors of aviation accidents or incidentsThe Harvard Crimson peopleThe New York Times columnistsThe New York Times journalistsWriters from New York City