Лучшие произведения Джеймса Глейка

Исследование идеи о путешествиях во времени: парадоксы, наука, отражение этого феномена в культуре — от Уэллса и Пруста до Борхеса и Вуди Аллена — и его влияние на наше восприятие времени в целом. Джеймс Глик всесторонне исследует концепцию четвертого измерения и путешествий во времени: как она возникла, как развивалась — в литературе и науке — и как повлияла на восприятие времени в целом. Он показывает, что эта идея прочно вошла в современную культуру и присутствует и в современной физике, и в художественной литературе. История путешествий во времени начинается с конца 19-го века, когда Герберт Уэллс пишет свой первый роман — «Машина времени». Это было время, когда многие технологические и научные прорывы — от парового двигателя и телеграфа до раскопок древних цивилизаций — меняли наше восприятие времени. Джеймс Глик описывает всю историю этого загадочного, интересного и полного парадоксов явления с того момента и до наших времен, рассказывая о разнице между фантастическими вымыслами и современной наукой.

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 charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code.In ‘The Information’ James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the ‘bit’, it is a fascinating account of the modern age’s defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological — the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture — from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

«Геній» Джеймса Гліка – шедевр наукової біографії, справжнє джерело натхнення для всіх, хто прагне до самореалізації. Автору вдалося досягти практично ідеального балансу між приватним життям героя та його діяльністю у сфері теоретичної фізики, причому й те, й те написано жваво, яскраво, часом іронічно, але завжди глибоко й точно. Перед читачем постає неймовірно привабливий портрет одного з найбільш незвичайних і талановитих науковців XX століття, чиє життя скидається на захопливу наукову пригоду, мета якої – пізнання таємниць матерії і парадоксів внутрішнього світу геніально обдарованої особистості.
Ця книжка заслужено принесла автору почесне місце у фіналі Національної книжкової премії США і номінацію на престижну Пулітцерівську премію.

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological – the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture – from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith.
Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light and motion; he effectively discovered gravity; he salvaged the terms ‘time’, ‘space’, ‘motion’ and ‘place’ from the haze of everyday language, standardized them and married them, each to the other, constructing an edifice that made knowledge a thing of substance: quantative and exact. Creation, Newton demonstrated, unfolds from simple rules, patterns iterated over unlimited distances.
What Newton learned remains the essence of what we know. Newton’s laws are our laws. When we speak of momentum, of forces and masses, we are seeing the world as Newtonians. When we seek mathematical laws for economic cycles and human behaviour, we stand on Newton’s shoulders. Our very deeming the universe as solvable is his legacy.
This was the achievement of a reclusive professor, recondite theologian and fervent alchemist. A man who feared the light of exposure, shrank from controversy and seldom published his work. In his daily life he emulated the complex secrecy in which he saw the riddles of the universe encoded. His vision of nature was of its time; he never purged occult, hidden, mystical qualities. But he pushed open a door that led to a new universe.