| Chaos and Determinism: Turbulence as a Paradigm for Complex Systems Converging Toward Final States Contributor(s): Favre, Alexandre (Author), Guitton, Henri (Author), Guitton, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801849128 ISBN-13: 9780801849121 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: "I found this most unusual book to be very stimulating. It really did achieve its objective of breaking academic barriers and showing how researchers in different disciplines are grappling with the same difficulties in using different conceptual and practicalmethodologies, and in explaining their results... I found many aspects of my own thinking about fluid mechanics and the philosophy of science changing as I read the book and discussed it with colleagues and friends."--Julian C. R. Hunt, reviewing the French edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Chaotic Behavior In Systems - Psychology |
| Dewey: 003.85 |
| LCCN: 94012691 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.02" W x 8.96" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume, members of the French Academy from several disciplines - including fluid mechanics, economics, philosophy, theoretcial physics and biology - offer scientific and theoretical analyses of the concepts of order, chaos and determinism as they emerge in such complex and diverse systems as atmosphere, oceans, monetary economics and biological organisms. Using turbulence in fluid mechanics as the chief model, the authors describe and explain the behaviour of systems that tend toward a particular end-state, such as an attractor in dynamic systems. The result is an interdisciplinary study of complex behaviour and its philosophical consequences in fluid mechanics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, embryology, genetics and economics. |
