From Cosmos to Chaos: The Science of Unpredictability

From Cosmos to Chaos: The Science of Unpredictability

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-224

  Coles, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Cosmology; Cosmos; Dark energy; Dark matter; Fundamental physics; Probability theory; Statistics; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455147313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567622.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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