In the wake of chaos : unpredictable order in dynamical systems / / Stephen H. Kellert
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| Autore: |
Kellert Stephen H
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| Titolo: |
In the wake of chaos : unpredictable order in dynamical systems / / Stephen H. Kellert
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1993 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 003/.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chaotic behavior in systems |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | system theory physics, chaos, dynamical systems, science, popular culture, randomness, philosophy, chaotic models, business cycles, brainwaves, heart attacks, new research, phenomena, philosophical questions, intellectual reasoning, meaning, knowledge, behavior, determinism, clockwork hegemony, dynamic understanding, scientific implications |
| Classificazione: | CC 3200 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. What Is Chaos Theory? -- 2. Varieties of the Impossible -- 3. Unpeeling the Layers of Determinism -- 4. On the Way to Dynamic Understanding -- 5. Beyond the Clockwork Hegemony -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new research into chaotic phenomena mean for our understanding of the world? In this timely book, Stephen Kellert takes the first sustained look at the broad intellectual and philosophical questions raised by recent advances in chaos theory-its implications for science as a source of knowledge and for the very meaning of that knowledge itself. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In the wake of chaos |
| ISBN: | 1-283-05831-6 |
| 9786613058317 | |
| 0-226-42982-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807789903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Science and its conceptual foundations.