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Title: Chance and Chaos Author: David Ruelle Publisher: Princeton Publishing Company Date Published: April 1993 ISBN: 0691021007 Pages: 195 Footnotes: 100 Figures: 10 |
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Preface
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: Hadamard, Duhem, and Poincare
Chapter 9: Turbulence: Modes
Chapter 10: Turbulence: Strange Attractors
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
This book is on my shelf awaiting further review.
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Copyright © 1998 Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. Last updated: April 10, 1999; Version: 1.3
