Chaos and Determinism : Turbulence as a Paradigm for Complex Systems Converging Toward Final States
Overview
In Chaos and Determinism, members of the French Academy from several disciplines -- including fluid mechanics, economics, philosophy, theoretcial physics and biology -- offer scientific and philosophical analyses of the concepts of order, chaos, and determinism as they emerge in such complex systems as atmosphere, oceans, monetary economic, s and biological organisms. Using turbulence in fluid mechanics as the chief model, the authors describe and explain the behavior of systems that tend toward a particular end-state, such as an attractor in dynamic systems. The result is a unique interdisciplinary study of complex behavior and its philosophical consequences in fluid mechanics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, embryology, genetics, and economics.
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- ISBN-13: 9780801849121
- ISBN-10: 0801849128
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish Date: March 1995
- Dimensions: 8.96 x 6.02 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 208
- Reading Level: Ages 22-UP
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