Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work on the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems, makes his ideas accessible to a wide audience in this book, which has engendered massive debate in Europe and America. He and his colleague, Isabelle Stengers, 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.
- ISBN10 0006541151
- ISBN13 9780006541158
- Publish Date 11 October 1993 (first published 12 August 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk