Order Out of Chaos

Name: Order Out of Chaos
Author: Ilya Prigogine
ISBN: 9780553343632

by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers

384 pages2018BantamISBN 9780553343632

Young Adult

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About this book

A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.

Publication Details

Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2018
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780553343632
Language: en

About Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine was born in Moscow on January 25, 1917, a few months before the Russian Revolution. His family fled Russia soon after the Revolution and moved to Germany. When Prigogine was still a young boy his family moved again to Belgium. Prigogine obtained an undergraduate degree and, in 1941, a doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Prigogine concentrated his career on better understanding the role of time's impact on biological processes. His work has contributed greatly to the understanding of irreversible processes. He was a professor of Physics and Chemical engineering at the University of Texas and the author of 20 books and roughly 1,000 research articles. Prigogine received 53 degrees and numerous international awards and in 1977 he received the Noble Prize in chemistry for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures. At the end of his life Prigogine was directing the International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry in Brussels, Belgium. He died on May 28, 2003, in Brussels. [(Source)][1] [1]: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Prigogine.html