Chance and Chaos / / David Ruelle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ruelle, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Science Library ; 110
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691213958; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691213958?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 sardonic.