Does God Play Dice, Second ed.

The New Mathematics of Chaos

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by Ian Stewart

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published January 2002, 416 pages, paper

ISBN 0631232516

The science of chaos is forcing scientists to rethink Einstein's fundamental assumptions regarding the way the universe behaves. Chaos theory has already shown that simple systems, obeying precise laws, can nevertheless act in a random manner. This revised and updated edition includes three chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. New information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory is also incorporated.

Contents

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. One-way Pendulum.
6. Strange Attractors.
7. The Weather Factory.
8. Recipe for Chaos.
9. Sensitive Chaos.
10. Fig-trees 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.
Further Reading.
Illustration Acknowledgements.
Index