The Physics of Chance: from Blaise PASCAL to Niels Bohr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 12/10/1992
Description:
The children of Democritus (prediction in science); The laws of chaos (the theory of probability); Gaussian deviations (the theory of physical measurements); Maxwell, or probabilities as a matter of ignorance; Boltzmann, or probabilities as a matter of conviction (statistical physics); Poincare, or deterministic chaos (sensitivity to initial conditions); Bohr, or chance unavoidable (quantum mechanics); Inseparable photons (the EPR paradox); Conclusions (how chance does yeoman's service); Bibliography; Index.
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