Neuware - 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.

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Title: In the Wake of Chaos : Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press Dez 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226429768
ISBN 13: 9780226429762
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 204 millimeters width by 129 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
Weight: 206 grams

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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.

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Stephen H. Kellert is professor of philosophy at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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