Prof. Ilya Prigogine

[Artur F. Silva]

Dear friends:

In a search I made (results above) I found a book from Prigogine I had
never heard about.

Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Dissipative Structures
to Order Through Fluctuations
(with G. Nicolis)
J. Wiley & Sons, New York
1977

I have not the time to read it now. Has anyone red it an can make a
summary?

I suspect this can be very important to other questions
we have discussed here, namely, that "normal organizations" are
"constrained systems", that are in a sort of "equilibrium". So they
DO NOT evidence the caracterhistics of self organization that are
common in "non equilibrium Systems". Only about "non equilibrium
systems" do the laws of "chaos" apply. The role of OST can very
weel be one of "dissolving" the old order by way of "imposing"
some new rules and principles during the duration of the meeting.

Any comments?

Artur

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http://order.ph.utexas.edu/people/Prigogine.htm

Prof. Ilya Prigogine

Short Biography

Ilya Prigogine was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1977 for his
contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of
dissipative structures. He was born in Moscow, Russia on January 25, 1917.
He obtained both his undergraduate and graduate education in chemistry at
the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He is Regental Professor and Ashbel
Smith Professor of Physics and Chemical Engineering at the University of
Texas at Austin. In 1967, he founded the Center for Statistical Mechanics,
later renamed the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical
Mechanics and Complex Systems. Since 1959, he has been the director of the
International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, Belgium. In 1989, Prigogine
was awarded the title of Viscount by the King of Belgium. He is a member of
63 national and professional organizations, among which are the National
Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The most
recent of Prigogine's many international activities are Special Advisor to
the European Community in Brussels, Belgium and Honorary Member of the
World Commission of Culture and Development of UNESCO, chaired by Perez de
Cuellar.

The main theme of the scientific work of Ilya Prigogine has been a better
understanding of the role of time in the physical sciences and in biology.
He has contributed significantly to the understanding of irreversible
processes, particularly in systems far from equilibrium. The results of his
work on dissipative structures have stimulated many scientists throughout
the world and may have profound consequences for our understanding of
biological systems.

Prigogine has received numerous national awards and prizes, including the
Golden Medal of the Swante Arrhenius, Swedish Academy; Rumford Gold Medal,
Royal Society of London; the Descartes Medal, Paris; Commander of the
Legion of Honor, France; Imperial Order of the Rising Sun (Gold & Silver
Medals), Japan; Medaille d'Or, France; Russian International Scientific
Award, First "N. N. Bogolyubov Prize," Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research, Dubna; Medal of the President of the Italian Senate, awarded by
Pio Manzu International Research Center, Italy. He has received 48 honorary
degrees.

Recent Books

Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures
(with D. Kondepudi)
John Wiley & Sons, Chichester
1998

The End of Certainty, Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature
(with I. Stengers)
The Free Press, New York
1997

Exploring Complexity
(with G. Nicolis)
W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco
1989

Order Out of Chaos
(with I. Stengers)
Bantam Books, New York
1983

 From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences
W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco
1980

Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Dissipative Structures
to Order Through Fluctuations
(with G. Nicolis)
J. Wiley & Sons, New York
1977

Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Wiley-Interscience, New York
1962

Ilya Prigogine--Recent Journal
Articles       <http://order.ph.utexas.edu/people/Prigogine.htm#top>Top of
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1999 "Laws of Nature, Probability and Time Symmetry Breaking"
(with T. Petrosky)
Physica A 263, 528-539

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1998 "Relativistic Gamov Vectors"
J. Math. Phys. 39

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1997 "Nonlinear Science and the Laws of Nature"
Intl. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 7, 1917-1926

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1997 "Thermodynamics, Nonequilibrium"
(with D. Kondepudi)
Encyclopedia of Applied Physics 21, 311-337

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1996 "The Liouville Space Extension of Quantum Mechanics"
(with T. Petrosky)
Advances in Chemical Physics XCIX, 1-120

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1996 "Extension of Classical Dynamics: The Case of Anharmonic Lattices"
(with T. Petrosky)
Gravity, Particles and Space-Time eds. P. Pronin and G. Sardanashvily
(World Scientific), 51-60

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1996 "Poincare Resonances and the Extension of Classical Dynamics"
(with T. Petrosky)
Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals 7, 441-498

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1995 "Why Irreversibility? The Formulation of Classical and Quantum
Mechanics for Nonintegrable Systems"
Intl. Journal of Quantum Chemistry 53, 105-118

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1995 "Why Irreversibility? The Formulation of Classical and Quantum
Mechanics for Nonintegrable Systems"
Intl. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 5, 3-16

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1994 "Quantum Chaos, Complex Spectral Representation and Time-Symmetry
Breaking"
(with T. Petrosky)
Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals 4, 311-359

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1993 "Poincare's Resonances and the Limits of Quantum Mechanics"
(with T. Petrosky)
Physics Letters A 182, 5-15

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1993 "Poincare's Resonances and the Limits of Trajectory Dynamics"
(with T. Petrosky)
Proc. Nat'l Aca. Sciences USA 90, 9393-9397

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