{"title":"The Claude Bernard Lecture, 1989 - Deterministic chaos: the science and the fiction","authors":"D. Ruelle","doi":"10.1098/rspa.1990.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Under the name of chaos the mathematical ideas of differentiable dynamics have had a profound impact on physics. Some success stories are discussed. Attention is also directed to the excessive optimism of some currently attempted applications. It is shown how and why they should fail.","PeriodicalId":20605,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":"241 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"270","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1990.0010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Under the name of chaos the mathematical ideas of differentiable dynamics have had a profound impact on physics. Some success stories are discussed. Attention is also directed to the excessive optimism of some currently attempted applications. It is shown how and why they should fail.