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Chaos and harmony : perspectives on scientific revolutions of the twentieth century

Title
Chaos and harmony : perspectives on scientific revolutions of the twentieth century / Trinh Xuan Thuan ; translated by Axel Reisinger.
Author
Trinh, Xuan Thuan.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description
xii, 366 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Uniform Title
Chaos et l'harmonie. English
Alternative Title
Chaos et l'harmonie.
Subject
  • Astrophysics > Philosophy
  • Chaotic behavior in systems
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]) and index.
Contents
Truth and beauty -- Contingency and necessity: the formation of the solar system -- Chaos in the cosmic machinery, and uncertainty in determinism -- The austere beauty of symmetry -- The unbearable strangeness of atoms -- The creative universe -- The unreasonable effectiveness of thought.
ISBN
0195129172 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99038174
OCLC
  • ocm41871416
  • SCSB-4050831
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries