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Does God play dice? : the new mathematics of chaos /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Ian, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2002.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Chaos.
Chaos (Science)
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-tree 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.