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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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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This book is neatly summarized in the Wikipedia entry on the author at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine and I can do no better. The man himself is a Nobel prize winner - in (physical) chemistry, 1977, for work related to this book (see the press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/press.html). All I have to offer is a reaction to the presentation: it's excellent (perhaps thanks to Isabelle Stengers), but you do need some technical sophistication. It's at the perfect level for someone like me who got through junior year physics and then escaped to math. It filled some conceptual gaps and showed me others that escaped my attention 50 years ago when I was struggling with quantum theory. To do that successfully requires that all three languages - symbols, diagrams and words - be deployed with skill.
