Does God play dice? : the new mathematics of chaos
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Bibliographic Information
Does God play dice? : the new mathematics of chaos
Blackwell, 2002
2nd ed
Available at 5 libraries
Note
This ed. originally published: London: Penguin, 1997
Includes bibliographical reference and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. It also incorporates new information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory. This witty, lucid and engaging book makes the complex mathematics of chaos accessible and entertaining.
Presents complex mathematics in an accessible style.
Includes three new chapters on prediction in chaotic systems, control of chaotic systems, and on the concept of chaos.
Provides a discussion of complexity theory.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition.
Prologue: Clockwork or Chaos?
1 Chaos from Order.
2 Equations for Everything.
3 The Laws of Error.
4 The Last Universalist.
5 One-way Pendulum.
6 Strange Attractors.
7 The Weather Factory.
8 Recipe for Chaos.
9 Sensitive Chaos.
10 Fig-trees and Feigenvalues.
11 The Texture of Reality.
12 Return to Hyperion.
13 The Imbalance of Nature.
14 Beyond the Butterfly.
15 Von Neumann's Dream.
16 Chaos and the Quantum.
17 Farewell, Deep Thought.
Epilogue: Dicing with the Deity.
Further Reading.
Illustration Acknowledgements.
Index.
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