 A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we...  Los Alamos Science - Page 231Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1985 - 442 pages
...the 1908 Science et Methode, he wrote: "A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a very considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. ... It may happen that very small differences in the initial conditions... | |
 | Science - 1980 - 728 pages
...dynamical systems theory. Writing in the pre-quantum era of pure Newtonian determinism, Poincare noted that A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe... | |
 | Ivar Ekeland - Mathematics - 1996 - 194 pages
...similar causes will not produce similar effects. In Science and Method, Poincare puts it this way: A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...and then we say that that effect is due to chance. Developing this idea, he writes: Why have meteorologists such difficulty in predicting the weather... | |
 | James B. Bassingthwaighte, Larry S. Liebovitch, Bruce J. West - Science - 1994 - 382 pages
...solar system is not predictable. Poincare's conclusion was a sharp break with the views of the past: A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe... | |
 | Bruce J. West, Bill Deering, William D. Deering - Science - 1995 - 444 pages
...delicate and ingenious of mathematical theories, the science of chance or probability." Poincaré 1903: "A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and situation of the universe at... | |
 | Barry D. Watts - Entropy (Information theory) - 1996 - 145 pages
...chance in the sense of causes too small to be discernible giving rise to large, noticeable effects: A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe... | |
 | Lui Lam - Science - 1998 - 358 pages
...delicate and ingenious of mathematical theories, the science of chance or probability." Poincare, 1903 "A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe... | |
 | J. M. Cushing - Mathematics - 2003 - 248 pages
...father of modern dynamical systems theory, who stumbled across what we now call chaos in the 1890s [12]: A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at... | |
 | Michael Meyerson - Mathematics - 2002 - 304 pages
...Finally, the exam resumed, and, shortly thereafter, Godel became a citizen. 10 Constitutional Chaos A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say the effect is due to chance. . . . [I]t may happen that small differences in the initial conditions... | |
 | Anthony L. Schmieg - Sports & Recreation - 2004 - 252 pages
...catastrophic. Henri Poincare, a French mathematician, described the phenomenon of escalating error. A very small cause which escapes our notice determines...effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe... | |
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