Chance and chaos
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Chance and chaos
(Penguin books, . Penguin science)
Penguin, 1993
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Reprint. First published by Princeton University Press 1991
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In this study, David Ruelle explores game theory, probability, classical chaos and quantum uncertainty among many other topics. Since many systems are highly sensitive to initial conditions, the consequences of tiny exchanges in the variables can be enormous. Ruelle applies this insight to the understanding of turbulence, "strange attractors", entropy, black holes, information and intelligence.
Table of Contents
- Chance
- probabilities
- mathematics and physics
- probabilities
- lotteries and horoscopes
- classical determinism
- games
- sensitive dependence on initial condition
- Hadamard, Duhem and Poincare
- turbulence - modes
- turbulence - strange attractions
- chaos - a new paradigm
- chaos - consequences
- economics
- historical evolutions
- quanta - conceptual framework
- quanta - counting states
- entropy
- irreversibility
- equilibrium statistical mechanics
- boiling water and the gates of hell
- information
- complexity, algorithmic
- complexity and Goedel's theorem
- the true meaning of sex
- intelligence
- epilogue - science.
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