Sir Isaac Newton Stranger in a Strange Land
The theme of this essay is that the time of dominance of Newton’s world view in science is drawing to a close. The harbinger of its demise was the work of Poincaré on the three-body problem and its culmination into what is now called chaos theory. The signature of chaos is the sensitive dependence o...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/11/1204 |