Main entry:

Prigogine, I. (Ilya)

Title & Author:

Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature / Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers ; foreword by Alvin Toffler.

Publication:

Toronto ; New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1984.

Description:

xxxi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Based on the authors' La nouvelle alliance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

ISBN:

0553340824 (pbk.)
9780553340822 (pbk.)
1786631008
9781786631008
0553343637
9780553343632

Subject:

Science Philosophy.
Physics Philosophy.
Thermodynamics.
Irreversible processes.
Science.
Physics.
Philosophy.
Sciences Philosophie.
Physique Philosophie.
Thermodynamique.
Processus irréversibles.
Sciences.
Physique.
Philosophie.
thermodynamics.
sciences (philosophy)
physics.
philosophy.
science (modern discipline)
Physik
Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften
Natuurwetenschappen.
Thermodynamica.
Entropie.
Chaos.

Added entries:

Stengers, Isabelle.
Prigogine, I. (Ilya). Nouvelle alliance.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293825
Call No.: BIB 239010
Status: Available