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Ian Stewart
(24 Sep 1945 - )
English mathematician who is a prolific author of books on mathematics, for the lay reader and others for academics or as textbooks. He writes the 'Mathematical Recreations' column in Scientific American.
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Science Quotes by Ian Stewart (1)
By the 18th century science had been so successful in laying bare the laws of nature that many thought there was nothing left to discover. Immutable laws prescribed the motion of every particle in the universe, exactly and forever: the tak of the scientist was to elucidate the implications of those laws for any particular phenomenon of interest. Chaos gave way to a clockwork world. But the world moved on ...Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork. ... With the advent of quantum mechanics, the clockwork world has become a lottery. Fundamental events, such as the decay of a radioactive atom, are held to be determined by chance, not law.
— Ian Stewart
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (2002). xi.
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