Mathematics and The Unexpected

Ivar Ekeland

Publisher:

University Of Chicago Press

Publication Date:

1990

Number of Pages:

154

Format:

Paperback

Price:

16.00

ISBN:

0226199908

Category:

General

BLL Rating:

BLL*

The Basic Library List Committee recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

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Foreword by Felix E. Browder
Introduction
1. The Music of the Spheres
The Marvel of Kepler's Laws
Celestial Mechanics
Classical Determinism
2. The Shattered Crystal
The Impossible Calculations
Poincaré's Contribution
Deterministic but Random
Unstable but Stable
3. The Comeback of Geometry
A Word of Warning
Dissipative Systems
Catastrophes
Theory
A Critique
4. Back to the Beginning
Appendix 1. Prelude and Fugue on a Theme by Poincaré
Appendix 2. The Feigenbaum Bifurcation
Bibliography
Index