ABSTRACT
Four centuries ago, Newton and other scientists introduced the idea of determin-
ism in the mathematical representation of the real world. As a result, future events
in nature could be explained using knowledge of the past. The movements of stel-
lar bodies were assumed to follow predetermined paths according to laws that were
known or had to be discovered by the scientific community. The theory of deter-
minism also had theoretical support from philosophy and other scientific fields. It
would be difficult to say that determinism, as a general idea, can solve all problems
in nature. The scientists of the last few centuries followed this theory in order to
find rational routes in the construction of models. It was essential to simplify our
description of the world first, and only then to solve fundamental problems, instead
of entering into obscure paths of uncertainty and later on Chaos.