Chaos: The New Science (Nobel Conference XXVI) - Softcover

John Holte; James Gleick; Ilya Prigogine; Mitchell Feigenbaum; Benoit Mandelbrot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819189340 ISBN 13: 9780819189349

Publisher: University Press of America, 1993

Synopsis

The role of chaos in science and mathematics is examined in detail by the essays that comprise this work. Distinguished scholars specializing in mathematics, physics, and chemistry discuss the following subjects: Fractals, by Benoit Mandelbrot; The Causality Principle, Deterministic Laws and Chaos, by Heinz-Otto Peitgen; The Transition to Chaos, by Mitchell Feigenbaum; Time, Dynamics and Chaos: Integrating Poincare's 'Non-Integrable Systems', by Ilya Prigogine; What Is Chaos, by Steve Smale; Chaos and Cosmos: A Theological Approach, by John Polkinghorne; and Chaos and Beyond, by James Gleick. Introduction by John Holte. This volume is number 26 in the Nobel Conference Series. Co-published with the Nobel Conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0819189340
• ISBN 13: 9780819189349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148