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From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences Paperback – January 1, 1981

by Ilya Prigogine (Author)
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  1. Print length
    272 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    W H Freeman & Co
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1981
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9780716711087
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0716711087
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0716711087
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W H Freeman & Co; First Edition (January 1, 1981)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780716711087
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0716711087
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Steve Paysen
5.0 out of 5 stars Time & Complexity
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2013
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An excellent introduction to the current advanced scientific view of the nature of organic life and the universe. This complex subject is made reasonably simple by Prigogine.
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Provivalist
2.0 out of 5 stars OOPS...A WHOLE LOT OF MATH
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019
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If you're a Prigogine fan AND a math head, this is probably your thing. But there's a LOT of math...
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shawn
2.0 out of 5 stars Too much math
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There’s way too many mathematical equations in this book.
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johnny de philo
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging, Vital and Accessible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2016
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Ilya Prigogine is one of the most important thinkers regarding the problems of 'complexity', 'time', 'being' and 'becoming'. What makes this work essential reading for artists and philosophers whose work(s) ride outside their respective environments is that he begins to chart ways in which a method closer to fine art/contemporary art practice can be envisioned and inhabited, neatly side-stepping the usual traps in 'metric' or scientistic renderings (so much a part of the neo-liberal turn in academia and elsewhere. This book is one of the most accessible of his works for precisely this purpose.
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Frank Bierbrauer
4.0 out of 5 stars An impressive and exciting book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2010
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This, is a surprisingly good book. I first heard about it after I had read Prigogine's other book he wrote with Isabelle Stengers: "Order Out of Chaos".

This is a summary of Prigogine's work up to and during the late 1970's on his ideas regarding irreversable non-equlibrium thermodynamics. It's a wonderful tale about the beginnings of chaos theory. The time in the 1980's when it all started. And, to some degree, Prigogine contributed to this revolution in classical mechanics. He does a lot more than this however, he talks about the interface between classical and quantum mechanics and how the two can be interlaced. It's not a totally new theory, rather it illuminates the place where the two theories meet.

Each chapter reveals a new idea which leads into something more. Eventually, he gets to this interface between the two theories and does so through an extension of the concept of entropy which is extended into non-equilibrium thermodynamics. It is this old concept but adapted to a new scenario and taking into account the idea of time being something more than just a counter measuring movement, that is, not real change but merely a re-arrangement of known parts.

An impressive and exciting book.
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