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Science of Chaos or Chaos in Science?

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arxiv chao-dyn/9603009 v1 pith:L6LH2VVK submitted 1996-03-22 chao-dyn nlin.CD

Jean Bricmont (University of Louvain , Belgium) This is my paper · ORCID
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I try to clarify several confusions in the popular literature concerning chaos, determinism, the arrow of time, entropy and the role of probability in physics. Classical ideas going back to Laplace and Boltzmann are explained and defended while some recent views on irreversibility, due to Prigogine, are criticized.

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