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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Chance -- CHAPTER 2. Mathematics and Physics -- CHAPTER 3. Probabilities -- CHAPTER 4. Lotteries and Horoscopes -- CHAPTER 5. Classical Determinism -- CHAPTER 6. Games -- CHAPTER 7. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition -- CHAPTER 8. Hadamaid, Duhem, and Poincare -- CHAPTER 9. Turbulence: Modes -- CHAPTER 10. Turbulence: Strange Attr actors -- CHAPTER 11. Chaos: A New Paradigm -- CHAPTER 12. Chaos: Consequences -- CHAPTER 13. Economics -- CHAPTER 14. Historical Evolutions -- CHAPTER 15. Quanta: Conceptual Framework -- CHAPTER 16. Quanta: Counting States -- CHAPTER 17. Entropy -- CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility -- CHAPTER 19. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics -- CHAPTER 20. Boiling Water and the Gates of Hell -- CHAPTER 21. Information -- CHAPTER 22. Complexity, Algorithmic -- CHAPTER 23. Complexity and Godel's Theorem -- CHAPTER 24. The True Meaning of Sex -- CHAPTER 25. Intelligence -- CHAPTER 26. Epilogue: Science -- Notes
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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 sardonic.
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Chaotic behavior in systems.
Probabilities.
Stochastic processes.
MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy. bisacsh
Fluid Mechanics.
Horoscopes.
Lorenz attractor.
Lotteries.
Mathematics.
Monte Carlo method.
NP hard.
Paradigm.
Physical Review.
Renormalization Group.
algorithmic complexity.
classical.
data compression.
deterministic noise.
dynamo mechanism.
entropy.
eternal return.
exponential growth.
geometrization.
idealization.
imaginary.
large systems.
long series.
period of modes.
probabilities.
quantum.
transients.
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Princeton Science Library ;
Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
CHAPTER 1. Chance --
CHAPTER 2. Mathematics and Physics --
CHAPTER 3. Probabilities --
CHAPTER 4. Lotteries and Horoscopes --
CHAPTER 5. Classical Determinism --
CHAPTER 6. Games --
CHAPTER 7. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition --
CHAPTER 8. Hadamaid, Duhem, and Poincare --
CHAPTER 9. Turbulence: Modes --
CHAPTER 10. Turbulence: Strange Attr actors --
CHAPTER 11. Chaos: A New Paradigm --
CHAPTER 12. Chaos: Consequences --
CHAPTER 13. Economics --
CHAPTER 14. Historical Evolutions --
CHAPTER 15. Quanta: Conceptual Framework --
CHAPTER 16. Quanta: Counting States --
CHAPTER 17. Entropy --
CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility --
CHAPTER 19. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics --
CHAPTER 20. Boiling Water and the Gates of Hell --
CHAPTER 21. Information --
CHAPTER 22. Complexity, Algorithmic --
CHAPTER 23. Complexity and Godel's Theorem --
CHAPTER 24. The True Meaning of Sex --
CHAPTER 25. Intelligence --
CHAPTER 26. Epilogue: Science --
Notes
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title_alt Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
CHAPTER 1. Chance --
CHAPTER 2. Mathematics and Physics --
CHAPTER 3. Probabilities --
CHAPTER 4. Lotteries and Horoscopes --
CHAPTER 5. Classical Determinism --
CHAPTER 6. Games --
CHAPTER 7. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition --
CHAPTER 8. Hadamaid, Duhem, and Poincare --
CHAPTER 9. Turbulence: Modes --
CHAPTER 10. Turbulence: Strange Attr actors --
CHAPTER 11. Chaos: A New Paradigm --
CHAPTER 12. Chaos: Consequences --
CHAPTER 13. Economics --
CHAPTER 14. Historical Evolutions --
CHAPTER 15. Quanta: Conceptual Framework --
CHAPTER 16. Quanta: Counting States --
CHAPTER 17. Entropy --
CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility --
CHAPTER 19. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics --
CHAPTER 20. Boiling Water and the Gates of Hell --
CHAPTER 21. Information --
CHAPTER 22. Complexity, Algorithmic --
CHAPTER 23. Complexity and Godel's Theorem --
CHAPTER 24. The True Meaning of Sex --
CHAPTER 25. Intelligence --
CHAPTER 26. Epilogue: Science --
Notes
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physical 1 online resource (208 p.)
contents Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
CHAPTER 1. Chance --
CHAPTER 2. Mathematics and Physics --
CHAPTER 3. Probabilities --
CHAPTER 4. Lotteries and Horoscopes --
CHAPTER 5. Classical Determinism --
CHAPTER 6. Games --
CHAPTER 7. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition --
CHAPTER 8. Hadamaid, Duhem, and Poincare --
CHAPTER 9. Turbulence: Modes --
CHAPTER 10. Turbulence: Strange Attr actors --
CHAPTER 11. Chaos: A New Paradigm --
CHAPTER 12. Chaos: Consequences --
CHAPTER 13. Economics --
CHAPTER 14. Historical Evolutions --
CHAPTER 15. Quanta: Conceptual Framework --
CHAPTER 16. Quanta: Counting States --
CHAPTER 17. Entropy --
CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility --
CHAPTER 19. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics --
CHAPTER 20. Boiling Water and the Gates of Hell --
CHAPTER 21. Information --
CHAPTER 22. Complexity, Algorithmic --
CHAPTER 23. Complexity and Godel's Theorem --
CHAPTER 24. The True Meaning of Sex --
CHAPTER 25. Intelligence --
CHAPTER 26. Epilogue: Science --
Notes
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