The "LAPLACE demon", an intelligence capable of knowing the position and the velocity of every particle in the universe and so, using the laws of classical physics, knowing all their future states, seemed in the last century to pose a contradiction between the laws of physics and the freedom of the
Nineteenth Century Anticipations of Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems
โ Scribed by Michael A. B. Deakin
- Book ID
- 124183630
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 882 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-9519
- DOI
- 10.2307/41133851
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