Caso e caos

This book goes down like a high school cafeteria salad bar - plenty of variety but overwhelmingly mediocre. It seems as though Ruelle simply sat down one Saturday and thought, "Hey, I think I'll write a book" and proceeded to regurgitate his stream of consciousness onto paper for the next several hou Leggi tutto

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Eu geralmente não faço reviews de livros, justamente pelo fato de eu não confiar muito no meu poder de julgamento literário. Porém, sinto que esse livro do David Ruelle despertou em mim essa segurança (ou insegurança, não sei julgar ainda) de fazer uma análise do mesmo. Para começar, o próprio autor Leggi tutto

There is a certain weariness in Ruelle's account of chance. The naive point of view is that physics is like mathematics. Physicists discover laws of nature, just as mathematicians discover theorems. In practice, however, as Ruelle reminds us, physics is messy. The language of physics is mathematics, Leggi tutto

This book tries to assert the place of probability, chance and information in the nature of reality, both relating to biological life and the physical universe. There are some definitely interesting philosophical nuggets, and there are interspersed with amusingly sarcastic descriptions of the practi Leggi tutto

α̃ - I read the Mathematician's Brain yesterday & enjoyed Ruelle's concise, witty, & honest style. Ω(»,Φ,I,β) - I would recommend if you enjoy unraveling threads ~(=^‥^)ﾉ◎～ ⇝ - Ivan Vinogradov , 💡MM/MinMax , Theophile de Donder , 🔬Statistical Mechanics , 📚Vision , ♬Buxtehude Leggi tutto