Narrator of Unruly Systems
A science writer who makes difficult ideas legible by following the people, metaphors and instruments through which a field learns to see.
Science Writer & Historian
Born in New York and educated at Harvard, Gleick worked at The New York Times, including as an editor and science reporter. Journalism taught him to explain fields through their practitioners and evidence.
Chaos followed mathematicians and scientists discovering order, instability and sensitive dependence in nonlinear systems. The book helped give a new science a broad cultural vocabulary.
Genius and Isaac Newton use biography to show scientific thought as work: imaginative, social, competitive and historically situated.
The Information traced messages from drums and alphabets through Shannon and digital networks. Time Travel then followed a modern imaginative technology across fiction, physics and culture.
Claude ShannonThe mathematical theory at the centre of Gleick’s history of information.
H. G. WellsA literary precursor to the cultural history of time travel.
