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DETERMINISM IN A WORLD OF NON-INVERTIBLE TRANFORMATIONS

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814503372_0006Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
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    Determinism was formulated as a philosophical doctrine by the ancient greeks. Later it found support in physics. Recently ”deterministic chaos” became the catchword of a vigorous interdisciplinary school of scientists who study non-linear dynamics. In the present paper we ask the question: Can determinism be reconciled with chaos? The question is discussed in terms of non-invertible maps …