Chance and Chaos /

Chance and Chaos / / David Ruelle.

How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this question for a general audience, Ruelle writes in the best French tradition: he has produced an authoritative and elegant book--a model of clarity, succinctness, and a humor bordering at times on the sa...

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Ruelle, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1991
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Princeton Science Library ; 110
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t CHAPTER 1. Chance --   |t CHAPTER 2. Mathematics and Physics --   |t CHAPTER 3. Probabilities --   |t CHAPTER 4. Lotteries and Horoscopes --   |t CHAPTER 5. Classical Determinism --   |t CHAPTER 6. Games --   |t CHAPTER 7. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition --   |t CHAPTER 8. Hadamaid, Duhem, and Poincare --   |t CHAPTER 9. Turbulence: Modes --   |t CHAPTER 10. Turbulence: Strange Attr actors --   |t CHAPTER 11. Chaos: A New Paradigm --   |t CHAPTER 12. Chaos: Consequences --   |t CHAPTER 13. Economics --   |t CHAPTER 14. Historical Evolutions --   |t CHAPTER 15. Quanta: Conceptual Framework --   |t CHAPTER 16. Quanta: Counting States --   |t CHAPTER 17. Entropy --   |t CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility --   |t CHAPTER 19. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics --   |t CHAPTER 20. Boiling Water and the Gates of Hell --   |t CHAPTER 21. Information --   |t CHAPTER 22. Complexity, Algorithmic --   |t CHAPTER 23. Complexity and Godel's Theorem --   |t CHAPTER 24. The True Meaning of Sex --   |t CHAPTER 25. Intelligence --   |t CHAPTER 26. Epilogue: Science --   |t Notes 
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