Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the char[...]

The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick that reveals the science behind chaos theory
National bestsellerMore than a million copies sold
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversar[...]

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission, ebulent bongo-player and storyteller - Feynman played a bewildering assortment of roles in the [...]

From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New [...]

In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work.[...]

Isaac Newton (1643-1727) föddes i en värld av mörker, ovisshet och magi. Han saknade föräldrar, älskarinnor, vänner och grälade bittert med de framstående män som korsade hans väg. Han höljde sitt arbete i hemlighetsfullhet och lyckades upptäcka mer av den väsentliga kärnan i människ[...]

Viime vuosisadan suurimmat luonnontieteellisen ajattelun saavutukset ovat atomien rakennetta kuvaava kvanttimekaniikka ja geenien toiminnan selittävä molekyylibiologia.

Kolmas suuri läpimurto on kaaosteoria. Se auttaa hahmottamaan kaaoksen ja tuo järjestyksen näennäisesti kaoottisii[...]