Chance and chaos /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ruelle, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
Series:Princeton science library.
Subjects:
Probabilities.
Stochastic processes.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Probability
Stochastic Processes
Probabilités.
Processus stochastiques.
Chaos.
probability.
MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy
Chaotic behavior in systems
Probabilities
Stochastic processes
Chaostheorie
Stochastischer Prozess
Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Stochastische processen.
Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chance
  • Mathematics and physics
  • Probabilities
  • Lotteries and horoscopes
  • Classical determinism
  • Games
  • Sensitive dependence on initial condition
  • Hadamard, Duhem, and Poincaré
  • Turbulence : modes
  • Turbulence : strange attractors
  • Chaos : a new paradigm
  • Chaos : consequences
  • Economics
  • Historical evolutions
  • Quanta : conseptual framework
  • Quanta : counting states
  • Entropy
  • Irreversibility
  • Equilibrium statistical mechanics
  • Boiling water and the gates of hell
  • Information
  • Complexity and algorithmic
  • Complexity and Gödel's theorem
  • True meaning of sex
  • Intelligence.

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