Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780192843609 |
| ISBN10: | 0192843605 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 320 pages |
| Size: | 195x130x25 mm |
| Weight: | 276 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 51 illustrations |
| 673 |
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The Primacy of Doubt
From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 25 January 2024
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Short description:
The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty, covering a breathtaking range of topics, from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, economic modelling to conflict prediction, free will to consciousness.
Long description:
A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world?from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will
Covering a breathtaking range of topics?from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality?The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty. A key theme that unifies these seemingly unconnected topics is the geometry of chaos: the beautiful and profound fractal structures that lie at the heart of much of modern mathematics. Royal Society Research Professor Tim Palmer shows us how the geometry of chaos not only provides the means to predict the world around us, it suggests new insights into some of the most astonishing aspects of our universe and ourselves. This important and timely book helps the reader makes sense of uncertainty in a rapidly changing world.
The Primacy of Doubt provides a remarkably broad-ranging account of uncertainty in physics, in all its various aspects. I strongly recommend this highly thought-provoking book.
Covering a breathtaking range of topics?from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality?The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty. A key theme that unifies these seemingly unconnected topics is the geometry of chaos: the beautiful and profound fractal structures that lie at the heart of much of modern mathematics. Royal Society Research Professor Tim Palmer shows us how the geometry of chaos not only provides the means to predict the world around us, it suggests new insights into some of the most astonishing aspects of our universe and ourselves. This important and timely book helps the reader makes sense of uncertainty in a rapidly changing world.
The Primacy of Doubt provides a remarkably broad-ranging account of uncertainty in physics, in all its various aspects. I strongly recommend this highly thought-provoking book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chaos, Chaos Everywhere
The Geometry of Chaos
Noisy, Million-Dollar Butterflies
Quantum Uncertainty: Reality Lost?
The Two Roads to Monte Carlo
Climate Change: Catastrophe or Just Lukewarm?
Pandemics
Financial Crashes
Deadly Conflict and the Digital Ensemble of Spaceship Earth
Decisions! Decisions!
Quantum Uncertainty: Reality Regained?
Our Noisy Brains
Free Will, Consciousness, and God
Chaos, Chaos Everywhere
The Geometry of Chaos
Noisy, Million-Dollar Butterflies
Quantum Uncertainty: Reality Lost?
The Two Roads to Monte Carlo
Climate Change: Catastrophe or Just Lukewarm?
Pandemics
Financial Crashes
Deadly Conflict and the Digital Ensemble of Spaceship Earth
Decisions! Decisions!
Quantum Uncertainty: Reality Regained?
Our Noisy Brains
Free Will, Consciousness, and God