Deterministic Chaos

Abstract

Classical physics, in particular, classical Newtonian mechanics, can be perceived as being modelled by systems of simultaneous differential equations of second order, for which the initial values of the variables and their derivatives are known. It slowly dawned on the mathematical physicists that the solutions, even if they satisfied Lipschitz continuity and thus were unique, could have a huge variety of solutions; with huge structural differences. Some of these solutions turned out to be unstable.