When I encountered the idea of chaotic behavior in deterministic dynami- cal systems, it gave me both great pause and great relief. The origin of the great relief was work I had done earlier on renormalization group properties of homogeneous, isotropic fluid turbulence. At the time I worked on that, it was customary to ascribe the apparently stochastic nature of turbulent flows to some kind of stochastic driving of the fluid at large scales. It was simply not imagined that with purely deterministic driving the fluid could be turbulent from its own chaotic motion. I recall a colleague...
When I encountered the idea of chaotic behavior in deterministic dynami- cal systems, it gave me both great pause and great relief. The origin of the ...