Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos
Ian Nicholas Stewart · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1989
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.