Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos, 2nd Edition
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-631-23251-3 February 2002 Wiley-Blackwell 416 Pages
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Description
- 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
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.
Reviews
"For those who have even rudimentary mathematical knowledge, for teachers and for lively-minded school and university students, Stewart give a valuable insight into the innards of chaos" (The Times Higher Education Supplement)
"A fine introduction to a complex subject" (Daily Telegraph)
Features
- 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.