CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. CHAPTER 1. Chance 3
6. CHAPTER 2. Mathematics and Physics 8
7. CHAPTER 3. Probabilities 14
8. CHAPTER 4. Lotteries and Horoscopes 20
9. CHAPTER 5. Classical Determinism 26
10. CHAPTER 6. Games 34
11. CHAPTER 7. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition 39
12. CHAPTER 8. Hadamaid, Duhem, and Poincare 45
13. CHAPTER 9. Turbulence: Modes 51
14. CHAPTER 10. Turbulence: Strange Attr actors 57
15. CHAPTER 11. Chaos: A New Paradigm 66
16. CHAPTER 12. Chaos: Consequences 73
17. CHAPTER 13. Economics 80
18. CHAPTER 14. Historical Evolutions 86
19. CHAPTER 15. Quanta: Conceptual Framework 91
20. CHAPTER 16. Quanta: Counting States 97
21. CHAPTER 17. Entropy 103
22. CHAPTER 18. Irreversibility 109
23. CHAPTER 19. Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics 115
24. CHAPTER 20. Boiling Water and the Gates of Hell 122
25. CHAPTER 21. Information 129
26. CHAPTER 22. Complexity, Algorithmic 136
27. CHAPTER 23. Complexity and Godel's Theorem 143
28. CHAPTER 24. The True Meaning of Sex 150
29. CHAPTER 25. Intelligence 156
30. CHAPTER 26. Epilogue: Science 162
31. Notes 167