Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos
Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Disarray Books
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“You judge in a God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order.” Albert Einstein The science of disarray is forcing scientists to rethink Einstein’s fundamental assumptions regarding the way the universe behaves. Disarray 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 weird 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 exchange the weather, and the gravitational attraction of a creature in a distant galaxy can exchange the fate of the solar system.
This revised and updated edition includes three chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. New in rank 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 disarray accessible and entertaining. Amazon.com Review
We’d better get used to disarray because it certainly isn’t going anywhere. Mathematician Ian Stewart–who is also a very talented novelist–shares his insights into the history and nature of the highly complex in Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Disarray. Even as his delightful phrasings will draw in near every reader, those with a strong aversion to figures and formulae should know that it will be slow going. Disarray math suffuses everything from dreaming to the motion of the planets, and Stewart’s words can never match the precision of his numbers. Persistence pays off, though; there are so many “aha” moments of insight herein that it nearly qualifies as a religious text. The second edition has been partially revised in the wake of 1990s research, and three exciting new chapters report on prediction and other applications of disarray mathematics. –Rob Lightner
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God doesn’t play Dice, he plays with Our Conception ofReallity and Ian Stewart offers here a clear and very accesible workfrom
Poincare’s insights to our modern knowledge about turbulence in fluid dynamics. Step by step
you get deeper envolved in the Dice Games of
God and Realize that the analisis of those Dynamics is giving a new insight in those
Dice Games revealing Pattern, Structure and
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Chaotic Dynamics? The resolution is offered by
Ian Stewart. Disarray Theory is only a step more
to get closer using these analitycal tools as Patterns of Recognition within all specialities and fields. We will encounter new Dice Games
to learn, after that Games are not Games but
intrincate Pattern and Subtle Structure only exposed when we know what to look for.
But for that we need to exchange Our Insights,
a thing we don’t like to do easily but when done
so, Reveals the Rich Order, Law and Structure
that surrounds Us. We only need to make the aptly questions. An uneasy task, but a Revarding one. END
Rating: 5 / 5
An fascinating and fun introduction to disarray. Stewart writes very well and often makes keen and insightful observations. I learned a fantastic deal and was inspired to read other books on this fascinating topic. There were a few things I didn’t like, but to be honest they are not major: 1) The deliberate forestalling of mathematical detail in this book, which does indeed bestow some very deep mathematical concepts, is very odd and sometimes unhelpful. Odd, for example, as when in the midst of a chapter on quantum theory Stewart takes time to meticulously tell the reader what an absolute value is. Or, when he’s describing how to perform calculations to generate disarray he stops for a paragraph to clarify what it means to square a variable. Is it really possible that readers who lack such rudimentary math skills would be reading this book?? 2) For my tastes, there’s way too much God talk in this book. Stewart clearly is not doing this for any religious reason – but it’s odd because I have no thought why he finds it necessary to so often toss in sentences about God doing this or God thought that, or God blah blah blah. By the end – especially at the literal end and the stupid joke in the epilogue – it really gets tiresome.
Rating: 4 / 5
I am a college-educated, non-math major, numbers-oriented senior citizen who sought after to find out what Disarray Theory is. I got this book out of my local library to see whether I should buy it. It reads easily, even entertainingly, so I resolute to order it.
But, the newest edition in paperback has very very fine print–even with reading glasses! I returned this edition, and am trying again with the older edition in hardback (same ISBN as the library book).
As others have noted, this book does not go into the “deep” mathematics of Disarray. But, the material IS challenging.
Rating: 3 / 5