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Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature
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Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature

by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers

This book explores the relationship between order and chaos, showing how these two traditional themes of classical science are reconciled in a new synthesis based on the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems.

Accession 5489 ISBN 0006541151 Publisher Flamingo
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