Does God Play Dice?

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Does God Play Dice? THE NEW MATHEMATICS OF CHAOS. Second edition. Ian Stewart. PENGUIN BOOKS. Page 2. Contents. Preface to the Second Edition.
Does God Play Dice? THE NEW MATHEMATICS OF CHAOS Second edition

Ian Stewart

PENGUIN BOOKS

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Prologue Clockwork or Chaos? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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 Beyond the Butterfly Von Neumann's Dream Chaos and the Quantum Farewell, Deep Thought

vii xi -

1 18 37 49 64 85 115 135 155 181 201 228 253 279 308 329 • 357

Epilogue Dicing with the Deity

383

Further Reading Illustration Acknowledgements Index .

384 391 393