The Kolmogorov Legacy in Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Contributors: Angelo Vulpiani (Editor); Roberto Livi (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783540203070
Subjects: Cybernetics & systems theory; History of science; Turbulence; Kolmogorov complexity; Differentiable dynamical syste; Science; Science/Mathematics; Physics; Applied; Science / Physics; Chaotic Behavior in Systems; History; Differentiable dynamical systems; Probabilities
First sentence: At the end of the 19th century H. Poincaré rigorously showed that a generic Hamiltonian system with few degrees of freedom described by Newton's equations is not integrable [1].