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McDaniel, Reuben R |
Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems |
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2005 |
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Driebe, Dean J |
Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry |
I01893 |
1999 |
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| Title | Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems : Questions on Working with the Unexpected |
| Author(s) | McDaniel, Reuben R;Driebe, Dean J |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. |
| Description | X, 202 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Complexity science has been a source of new insight in physical and social systems and has demonstrated that unpredictability and surprise are fundamental aspects of the world around us. This book is the outcome of a discussion meeting of leading scholars and critical thinkers with expertise in complex systems sciences and leaders from a variety of organizations sponsored by the Prigogine Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the Plexus Institute to explore strategies for understanding uncertainty and surprise. Besides distributions to the conference it includes a key digest by the editors as well as a commentary by the late nobel laureat Ilya Prigogine, "Surprises in half of a century". The book is intended for researchers and scientists in complexity science as well as for a broad interdisciplinary audience of both practitioners and scholars. It will well serve those interested in the research issues and in the application of complexity science to physical and social systems |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540323723 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
5. Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
6. DYNAMICS
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
10. ERGODIC THEORY
11. Mathematical and Computational Engineering
12. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
13. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
14. VIBRATION
15. Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control
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| Title | Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry |
| Author(s) | Driebe, Dean J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1999. |
| Description | X, 166 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | I am very pleased and privileged to write a short foreword for the monograph of Dean Driebe: Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry. Despite the technical title this book deals with a problem of fundamental importance. To appreciate its meaning we have to go back to the tragic struggle that was initiated by the work of the great theoretical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann in the second half of the 19th century. Ludwig Boltzmann tried to emulate in physics what Charles Darwin had done in biology and to formulate an evolutionary approach in which past and future would play different roles. Boltzmann's work has lead to innumerable controversies as the laws of classical mechanics (as well as the laws of quan?? tum mechanics) as traditionally formulated imply symmetry between past and future. As is well known, Albert Einstein often stated that "Time is an illusion". Indeed, as long as dynamics is associated with trajectories satisfy?? ing the equations of classical mechanics, explaining irreversibility in terms of trajectories appears, as Henri Poincare concluded, as a logical error. After a long struggle, Boltzmann acknowledged his defeat and introduced a probabil?? ity description in which all microscopic states are supposed to have the same a priori probability. Irreversibility would then be due to the imperfection of our observations associated only with the "macroscopic" state described by temperature, pressure and other similar parameters. Irreversibility then appears devoid of any fundamental significance. However today this position has become untenable |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401716284 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
9. MECHANICS
10. OPERATOR THEORY
11. PROBABILITIES
12. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
14. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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