Chaos and Determinism: Turbulence as a Paradigm for Complex Systems Converging Toward Final States

by Henri Guitton, Jean Guitton, Alexandre Favre

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801849128
• ISBN13: 9780801849121
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher