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James Gleick

James Gleick is a science writer and historian known for books on chaos theory, information, and time.

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James Gleick is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

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Geick supports Knowledge Flow by revealing patterns in dynamic systems and the limits of prediction.

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Work by James Gleick

Book

Chaos

Making a New Science

Complex systems can be deterministic and still unpredictable. Chaos introduces nonlinear dynamics, sensitivity to initial conditions, and the hidden patterns within apparent disorder.

Knowledge Flow

  • Patterns & Temporal Intelligence