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348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index |
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Prologue : clockwork or chaos? -- Chaos from order -- Equations for everything -- The laws of error -- The last universalist -- One-way pendulum -- Strange attractors -- The weather factory -- Recipe for chaos -- Sensitive chaos -- Fig-trees and feigenvalues -- The texture of reality -- Return to hyperion -- The imbalance of nature -- Farewell, deep thought --The dice roll on ... -- Epilogue : dicing the deity |
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Does God Play Dice? explains the astonishing new theories of systems that obey simple laws but which are neither constant nor predictable. Ian Stewart reveals a strange universe, one in which nothing may be as it seems, where familiar geometrical shapes such as circles and ellipses give way to infinitely complex structures known as 'fractals.' He explains how the fluttering of a butterfly's wing can change the weather and how the gravitational attraction of a creature in a distant galaxy can change the fate of the solar system |
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Chaotic behavior in systems
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Chaotic behavior in systems
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