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This text, written by members of the French Academy who come from different disciplines, offers 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.

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"I found this most unusual book to be very stimulating. It really did achieve its objective of breaking academic barriers."--Julian C. R. Hunt, reviewing the French edition

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Methods, concepts and vocabulary; turbulence in fluid mechanics; the atmosphere and the hydrosphere - the media of life; physical theories - groups, the calculus of variations, relativity, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics; biology; economics, turbulence and chaos; conclusions; a philosopher's reflections, Jean Guitton.

Chaos and Determinism Turbulence as a Paradigm

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 26/04/1995
      ISBN13: 9780801849121, 978-0801849121
      ISBN10: 0801849128
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text, written by members of the French Academy who come from different disciplines, offers 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.

      Trade Review
      "I found this most unusual book to be very stimulating. It really did achieve its objective of breaking academic barriers."--Julian C. R. Hunt, reviewing the French edition

      Table of Contents
      Methods, concepts and vocabulary; turbulence in fluid mechanics; the atmosphere and the hydrosphere - the media of life; physical theories - groups, the calculus of variations, relativity, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics; biology; economics, turbulence and chaos; conclusions; a philosopher's reflections, Jean Guitton.

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