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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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Table of 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