Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph. Linear relationships are easy to think about....Linear equations are solvable..… - James Gleick

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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.

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About James Gleick

James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist and biographer whose best-selling books include The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood and Chaos: Making a New Science.

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