The End of Certainty

Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and...
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Author: Ilya Prigogine
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Language: English
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The End of Certainty by Prigogine, Ilya

The End of Certainty

¥6,492

The End of Certainty

¥6,492
Author: Ilya Prigogine
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Ilya Prigogine
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 08/17/1997
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.75w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780684837055


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/1997 pg. 937
Booklist 08/01/1997 pg. 1862

About the Author
Viscount Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, is the Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center of Statistical Mechanics, THermodynamics and Complex Systems in Austin, Texas, and the Director of the Solvay Institutes of Physics and Chemistry in Brussels. The recipient of honorary degrees from more than forty universities around the world, Prigogine has had five institutes devoted to the study of complex systems named for him. He lives in Brussels and Austin.

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