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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Prigogine, I. (Ilya). Order out of chaos. Toronto ; New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1984 (OCoLC)560332049 Online version: Prigogine, I. (Ilya). Order out of chaos. Toronto ; New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1984 (OCoLC)606058655 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
I Prigogine; Isabelle Stengers |
| ISBN: | 0553340824 9780553340822 1786631008 9781786631008 0553343637 9780553343632 |
| OCLC Number: | 10146336 |
| Notes: | Based on the authors' La nouvelle alliance. |
| Description: | xxxi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Alvin Toffer / Science and change. Man's new dialogue with nature. The challenge to science. Book one: the delusion of the universal. Chapter 1: the triumph of reason. -- The new Moses -- A dehumanized world -- The Newtonian synthesis -- The experimental dialog -- The myth at the origin of science -- The limits of classical science. The identification of the real. Newton's laws. -- Motion and change -- The language of dynamics -- Laplace's demon. The two cultures. -- Diderot and the discourse of living -- Kant's critical ratification -- A philosophy of nature? Hegel and Bergson -- Process and reality: whitehead -- "Ignoramus, ignoramibus": the positivist's strain -- A new start. The science of complexity -- Energy and the industrial age -- Heat, the rival of gravitation -- The principle of the conservation of energy -- Heat engines and the arrow of time -- From technology to cosmology -- The birth of entropy -- Boltzmann's Order Principle -- Carnot and Darwin. The three stages of thermodynamics. -- Flux and force -- Linear thermodynamics -- Far from equilibrium -- Beyond the threshold of chemical instability -- The encounter with moleular biology -- Bifurcations and symmetry-breaking -- Cascading bifurcations and the transitions to chaos -- From Euclid to Aristotle. Order through fluctuations. -- Fluctuations and chemistry -- Fluctuations and corralations -- The amplifications of fluctuations -- Structural stability -- Logistic evolution -- Evolutionary feedback -- Modelizatitons of complexity -- An open world. From being to becoming. Rediscovering time. -- A change of emphasis -- The end of universality -- The rise of quantum mechanics -- Heisenburg's uncertainty relation -- The temporal evolution of quantum systems -- A nonequilibrium universe -- The clash of doctrines. -- Probability and irreversibility -- Boltzmann's breakthrough -- Questioning Boltzmann's interpretation. |
| Responsibility: | Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers ; foreword by Alvin Toffler. |
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