Primacy of Doubt

Primacy of Doubt

From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world

Palmer, Tim

Oxford University Press

10/2022

320

Dura

Inglês

9780192843593

15 a 20 dias

528

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Preface
1: The Primacy of Doubt DS From Two Perspectives
Part I: The Science of Uncertainty and the Geometry of Chaos
2: Chaos, Chaos Everywhere
3: The Geometry of Chaos
4: Noisy, Million-Dollar Butterflies
5: Quantum Uncertainty DS Determinism Lost?
Part II: The Science of Uncertainty to Predict Our Chaotic World
6: The Two Roads to Monte Carlo
7: Climate Change: Catastrophe or Just Lukewarm?
8: Pandemics
9: Financial Crashes
10: Deadly Conflict and the Digital Ensemble of Spaceship Earth
11: Decisions! Decisions!
Part III: The Science of Uncertainty to Understand Our Chaotic World
12: Quantum Uncertainty: Determinism Regained?
13: Noisy Billion-Dollar Brains
14: Free Will, Consciousness and Theology
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
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