Thermodynamique by Ilya Prigogine

Thermodynamique by Ilya Prigogine

This is neither a university treatise nor a textbook, butPrigogine's fundamental work and the basis of all hisphilosophical essays. Thermodynamics ends with severalpages on the subject of time which are a review of theconclusion to The End of Certainty.Each one of the book's twenty chapters concludes withnumerous examples followed by a series of exercises (thecorrect answers are not given), which serve to helpfamiliarise the reader with the theoretical material justpresented. The book begins with an explanation of thefundamental concepts of thermodynamics, followed by thefirst law of thermodynamics, known as the law of energyconservation, and the second law of thermodynamics, known as the law of entropy. After describing theapplication of thermodynamics to chemical reactions, theauthors explain Prigogine's theory of dissipativestructures, which they see as the hI'den explanation thatsheds light on and will foster a better understanding ofthermodynamics.Ilya Prigogine received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry forhis research into dissipative structures at the Universityof Austin, Texas.Dilip Kondepudi teaches chemistry at the University ofTexas.

Viscount Ilya Prigogine is the Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center of Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Complex Systems in Austin, Texas, as well as the Director of the Solvay Institutes of Physics and Chemistry in Brussels. He is a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Prigogine has five institutes dedicated to the study of complex systems named after him. He has received honorary degrees from over forty universities throughout the world. He splits his time between Brussels and Austin.

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ISBN 13	9782738106469
ISBN 10	2738106463
Title	Thermodynamique
Author	Ilya Prigogine
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Odile Jacob
Year published	1999-02-18
Number of pages	368
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