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Does God Play Dice? Ian Stewart

Does God Play Dice? von Ian Stewart

Does God Play Dice? Ian Stewart

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Zusammenfassung

The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. It also incorporates new information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory. This witty, lucid and engaging book makes the complex mathematics of chaos accessible and entertaining.

Does God Play Dice? Zusammenfassung

Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos Ian Stewart

The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. It also incorporates new information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory. This witty, lucid and engaging book makes the complex mathematics of chaos accessible and entertaining.
  • 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.

Does God Play Dice? Bewertungen

"A book well worth reading and a valuable contribution to the literature on chaos" ( New Scientist)

"For those who have even rudimentary mathematical knowledge, for teachers and for livelyminded 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)

Über Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an active research mathematician with over 140 published papers, and has written or coauthored numerous books including The Collapse of Chaos (1994), Natures Numbers (1995), Figments of Reality (1997), Lifes Other Secret (1998), The Science of Discworld (1999), and Flatterland (2001). His awards include the 1995 Faraday Medal of the Royal Society and the 2000 Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition.

Prologue: Clockwork or Chaos?

1 Chaos from Order.

2 Equations for Everything.

3 The Laws of Error.

4 The Last Universalist.

5 Oneway Pendulum.

6 Strange Attractors.

7 The Weather Factory.

8 Recipe for Chaos.

9 Sensitive Chaos.

10 Figtrees and Feigenvalues.

11 The Texture of Reality.

12 Return to Hyperion.

13 The Imbalance of Nature.

14 Beyond the Butterfly.

15 Von Neumanns Dream.

16 Chaos and the Quantum.

17 Farewell, Deep Thought.

Epilogue: Dicing with the Deity.

Further Reading.

Illustration Acknowledgements.

Index.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR007703856
9780631232513
0631232516
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2002-01-04
416
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