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The End of Certainty Hardcover - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Ilya Prigogine
In "The End of Certainty", world-renowned chemist Ilya Prigogine draws together probability and certainty, Einstein and Shakespeare, and chaos and complexity to explain why our fundamental beliefs about time are wrong. Prigogine's work formulates a groundbreaking link between instability and chaos and the evolutionary framework in which we exist. Illustrations. Glossary.
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Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.
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- Title The End of Certainty
- Author Ilya Prigogine
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-08-17
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780684837055 / 0684837056
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.95 x 5.75 x 0.93 in (22.73 x 14.61 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Natural history, Space and time
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97003001
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.11
Media reviews
Oliver Sacks
"Prigogine is a pioneer of chaos and self-organization theory, and his vision is as revolutionary and fundamental as Darwin's. With a fascinating blend of the conceptual, historical, and personal, he gives us a rare and privileged glimpse into one of the most adventurous scientific imaginations of our time."
Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/1997, Page 1862
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/1997, Page 937
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