Strange Behaviour of Matter, The (2 Parts)

Synopsis: Programmes focusing on physics, mathematics and chemistry. 1.1: Concepts of chaos - Sensitivity to Initial Conditions: David Ruelle and Yves Pomeau introduce some basic concepts of chaos theory, focusing on the notion of sensitivity to initial conditions and illustrated by a series of computer experiments. Introduces bifurcation diagrams, cobweb diagrams, mixing, universal scenarios, and the Feigenbaum number. 1.2: Examples of Chaos - Chaos in the Solar System: Jacques Laskar uses chaos in the solar system as an example of its physical reality, focusing the history of the problem and the modern results, looking at the work of Poincare, the KAM theory, and recent calculations by Wisdom and Sussman. 1.3: Conversation - Prigogine on irreversibility and the quantum paradox.
2. A discussion among Ilya Prigogine, Ian Stewart, Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Hermann Haken, with audience participation.
Series: Science on the Edge of Chaos, Series
Language: English
Country: Belgium
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS (PAL, SECAM, NTSC). col. 2 x 90 min.
Year of production: 1994
Availability: Sale; 1996 sale: 40 Ecu (inclusive) each part
Uses: Scientists in universities, commmercial organisations and research laboratories.
Subjects: Engineering; Science
Keywords: chaos theory; quantum mechanics; solar system

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Cast

Luc Steels

Title: Concepts, examples and conversations
Synopsis: 2. A discussion among Ilya Prigogine, Ian Stewart, Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Hermann Haken, with audience participation.
Title: Panel discussion

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