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Title: Chaos and Determinism: Turbulence As a Paradigm for Complex Systems Converging Toward Final States by Alexandre Favre ISBN: 0-8018-4912-8 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95

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Comment: this is a book that in iy opinion fails in his target. Not that it does not have its very usefull points (for example I liked very much some entries in the vocabulary chapter), but because it seems to me that its authors (brilliant in their fields) are not the best qualiffied for the global view they are after. Perhaps even such a global view is not even really usefull.

First of all the authors fail to see the deepest message of modern physics: physics is a branch of mathemeatics like geometry or stochastics or logic and that all mathematics is an abstract science which in order to be complete should consist of all disciplines from logic to physics. The authors fail to see this abstractness of physics and so erroneously separate physics from mathematics (the latter it is not recognized as a natural science but is thought as a kind of religion) but evn more wrongly they treat biology and economics as separate from the realm of applications of physics. We do now (in the modern world which the authors probably do not understand fully) know that both of the latter disciplines can be understood through physics (but they are not applications of physics in specific and mathematics in general as the authors many times naively imply). That is why we have the principles of biophysics and econophysics!

Many nice discussions are found of cource, the chaper on turbulence in fluid mechanics was particularly good, but other chapters (ex physical theories) although usefull, were not showing the depth of an exposition one has for example in Penrose's two books. In addition the complete lack of mathematics from the book made the authors many times to resort to linguistic exposition which is boring to the specialist and baffling to the novice.

Perhaps for this reason this book never became a classic against the enthoussiastic (and good) intro by Mr Hunt.