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Ergodic Theory

A topic within Analysis, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Mathematics.

Reading on Ergodic Theory

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2 works

Paper1932

Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis

John von Neumann

Proves the mean ergodic theorem, showing that time averages of an observable along a measure-preserving flow converge in the mean, giving ergodic theory its first rigorous general result.

6 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026
Book1989

Lectures on Ergodic Theory

Karl Petersen

Presents measure-preserving transformations, recurrence and entropy as one continuous story about how deterministic systems can behave statistically like random ones.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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