This is an introduction to the ideas of indeterminacy that are central to much of modern physics and have overthrown the "clockwork universe" conceptions of earlier centuries.

Professor Ruhla guides the reader skilfully through all these developments and provides mathematical details in appendices. The book provides an accessible introduction to the modern physicist's conception of the world of cause and chance.

The children of Democritus (prediction in science)
The laws of chaos (the theory of probability)
Gaussian deviations (the theory of physical measurements)
Maxwell, or probabilities as a matter of ignorance
Boltzmann, or probabilities as a matter of conviction (statistical physics)
Poincare, or deterministic chaos (sensitivity to initial conditions)
Bohr, or chance unavoidable (quantum mechanics)
Inseparable photons (the EPR paradox)
Conclusions (how chance does yeoman's
service)
Bibliography
Index