Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or related to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.
- adj. Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions
Examples
“The Ehrenfests (1912) paper was the first to recognize these questions, and to provide a partial answer: Assuming a certain hypothesis of Boltzmann's, which they dubbed the ergodic hypothesis, they pointed out that for an isolated system the micro-canonical distribution is the unique stationary probability distribution.”
“That this was so became known as the ergodic hypothesis.”
“A good proof is a key that can unlock understanding, but this proof was long and complicated and used a difficult branch of math called ergodic theory.”
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“Paul Samuelson once went so far as to argue that economics must surrender its pretensions to science if it cannot assume the economy is "ergodic", which is a fancy way of saying that Fortune's wheel will spin tomorrow much as it did today (and that tomorrow's turn of the wheel is independent of today's).”
“It is my understanding that not only are the planetary orbits chaotic, they are non-ergodic too.”
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“One approach to deriving the kinetic equations relies upon work which generalizes ergodic theory.”
“The mathematical discipline of ergodic theory developed out of these early ideas.”
“But what makes you think that the consequences of the shorter timescales are ergodic?”
“At best, you can say “have not been proven to be ergodic either using mathematics or empirically”.”
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seanahan I've actually studied what would be called ergodic systems, although that term wasn't use very often. Aug 22, 2008
qroqqa Indeed, from erg- "work" + hod- "path", and adapted from the German Ergoden coined in a somewhat different sense by Boltzmann (1884). Aug 21, 2008
milosrdenstvi Probably from Greek ergos work, and thus related to ergatic. Aug 21, 2008
bilby It's almost disturbing that there are people in the world who require a word for 'positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems'. Aug 21, 2008