Book:Ian Stewart/Does God Play Dice?/Second Edition

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Ian Stewart: Does God Play Dice? (2nd Edition)

Published $\text {2001}$, A K Peters, Ltd.

ISBN 1-56881-127-6


Subject Matter


Contents

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 Farewell, Deep Thought
Epilogue: Dicing with the Deity
Further Reading
Illustration Acknowledgements
Index