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...(展开全部)

伊里亚・普里戈金（Ilya Prigogine）教授是比利里布鲁塞尔自由大学索尔维国际物理学和化学研究所所长兼美国奥斯汀得克萨斯大学统计力学和热力学研究中心主任。由于他在建立耗散结构理论方面的贡献，荣获香1977年诺贝尔化学奖。

伊里亚・普里戈金（Ilya Prigogine）教授是比利里布鲁塞尔自由大学索尔维国际物理学和化学研究所所长兼美国奥斯汀得克萨斯大学统计力学和热力学研究中心主任。由于他在建立耗散结构理论方面的贡献，荣获香1977年诺贝尔化学奖。

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. Neverthe...(展开全部)

Huxley surely was the best evolution defender of his time, even superior to Darwin and Wallace at this feat. This book is a classic to man's evolution literature and should be read by anyone interested in the early foundations of evolution. This were the kind of lectures and essays that destroy competing arguments from other theories. Something that strikes me is how updated th...(展开全部)

In this important book, John H. Holland dramatically shows us that the "emergence" of order from chaos has much to teach us about life, mind, and organizations. Creative activities in both the arts and the sciences depend upon an ability to model the world. The most creative of those models exhibits emergent properties, so that "what comes out is more than what goes in." From t...(展开全部)

The fourteen chapters of this book cover the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics including: the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, cellular automata, L-systems, percolation and strange attractors. This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout. The appendices of the original edition were taken out since more recent publications cove...(展开全部)

弗里德里希·克拉默，1923年生，1950年起任海德堡大学讲师，1959年任达姆施塔特大学有机化学教授，1962～1991年任马克斯·普朗克实验医学研究所所长，同时任不伦瑞克大学和格丁根大学名誉教授，著有《美的自然——美的形式动力学》、《沿山脊前行——艺术的混沌和时间的秩序》等16部著作。

Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may govern such apparently random behavior -- has been a major part of the work of Edwar...(展开全部)