Does God Play Dice?, Second Edition
暫譯: 上帝會擲骰子嗎？第二版

Stewart, Ian

Does God Play Dice?, Second Edition

商品描述

"You believe in a God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order."
--Albert Einstein

The science of chaos is forcing scientists to rethink Einstein's fundamental assumptions regarding the way the universe behaves. Chaos theory has already shown that simple systems, obeying precise laws, can nevertheless act in a random manner. Perhaps God plays dice within a cosmic game of complete law and order.

Does God Play Dice? reveals a strange universe in which nothing may be as it seems. Familiar geometrical shapes such as circles and ellipses give way to infinitely complex structures known as fractals, the fluttering of a butterfly's wings can change the weather, and the gravitational attraction of a creature in a distant galaxy can change the fate of the solar system.

This revised and updated edition includes three chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. New information regarding the solar system and an account of complexity theory is also incorporated. It is a lucid and witty book which makes the complex mathematics of chaos accessible and entertaining.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「你相信一位擲骰子的神，而我相信完全的法律與秩序。」
--阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦

混沌科學迫使科學家重新思考愛因斯坦關於宇宙行為的基本假設。混沌理論已經顯示，遵循精確法則的簡單系統仍然可以以隨機的方式運作。也許神在一場完全法律與秩序的宇宙遊戲中擲骰子。

《神是否擲骰子？》揭示了一個奇怪的宇宙，在這裡，事物可能並非如表面所見。熟悉的幾何形狀，如圓形和橢圓形，讓位於被稱為分形的無限複雜結構，蝴蝶翅膀的顫動可以改變天氣，而遙遠星系中生物的引力可以改變太陽系的命運。

這本修訂和更新的版本包含了三章關於混沌系統的預測與控制的新內容。還納入了有關太陽系的新資訊以及複雜性理論的介紹。這是一本清晰而機智的書籍，使混沌的複雜數學變得易於理解且富有娛樂性。

作者簡介

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an active research mathematician with over 140 published papers, and has written or co-authored numerous books including The Collapse of Chaos (1994), Nature's Numbers (1995), Figments of Reality (1997), Life's Other Secret (1998), The Science of Discworld (1999), and Flatterland (2001). His awards include the 1995 Faraday Medal of the Royal Society and the 2000 Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

伊恩·斯圖爾特是華威大學的數學教授，也是皇家學會的院士。他是一位活躍的研究數學家，發表了超過140篇論文，並撰寫或合著了多本書籍，包括混沌的崩潰（1994年）、自然的數字（1995年）、現實的幻影（1997年）、生命的另一個秘密（1998年）、碟世界的科學（1999年）和平坦國（2001年）。他的獎項包括1995年皇家學會的法拉第獎章和2000年數學及其應用學會的金獎。

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