num_pages: 349
description: Belgian philosopher Isabelle Stengers and Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work on the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems, make their ideas accessible to a wide audience in this book, which has engendered massive debate in Europe and America. Stengers and Prigogine show how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, which coexisted uneasily for centuries, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis.
language: English
title: Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
titlecomplete: Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
genres: Ecology, Philosophy, Biology, Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Psychology, Education, Chemistry, Mathematics
ratings_count: 567
publisher: Bantam Books