This is an interesting book that I am reading , written so well by Ilya Prigogine. How is it possible to have a theory of chaos? The story goes back to 1912. While Napoleon was advancing on Moscow, his compatriot the Marquis Pierre-Simon de Laplace published an essay on the deterministic universe; if at one particular instant, the positions and velocities of all objects in the universe were known, and forces acting on them, then these quantities could be calculated exactly for all future times. The universe and all objects in it would be completely determined. Chaos theory shows us that the world is more intricate than that.
I have lost count of the number of times that historians and prophets of doom have written of India- most believed that it is chaos personified. Read VS Naipaul's thesis- India: A Wounded Civilization. From chaos emerges order.........the past decade indicates the phenomenal growth that followed the depths of the 1990 economic morass.........despite chaotic systems. We have some way to go.
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I didn't understood this one. A bit high level. But I'm curious. Can you explain in simple words.
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