Conservation Equations. Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes: The Linear Region. Nonlinear Thermodynamics. Systems Involving Chemical Reactions and Diffusion-Stability. Mathematical Tools. Simple Autocatalytic Models. Some further Aspects of Dissipative Structures and Self-Organization Phenomena. General Comments. Birth and Death Descriptions of Fluctuations: Nonlinear Master Equation. Self-Organization in Chemical Reactions. Regulatory Processes at the Subcellular Level. Regulatory Processes at the Cellular Level. Cellular Differentiation and Patter Formation. Thermodynamics of Evolution. Thermodynamics of Ecosystems. Perspectives and Concluding Remarks. References. Index.
About the Authors GREGOIRE NICOLIS received his Ph.D. in Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanisms in 1965 at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. A recipient of the De Donder Prize of the Belgian Academy of Science, Dr. Nicolis is an Associate Foreign Member of the Academy, and the co-editor, with R. Lefever, of Membranes, Dissipative Structures, and Evolution (Wiley-Interscience, Vol. 29 in Advances in Chemical Physics Series, 1975). He has served at the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of Oregon, Eugene, as Visiting Professor, and is currently Professeur Associe at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. ILYA PRIGOGINE is one of the founders of the modern theory of irreversible processes. His work includes both thermodynamics and statistical physics. He is a member of several national academies and learned societies, and is former President of the Belgian Royal Academy and an Associate Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Dr. Prigogine holds numerous honorary degrees and has received many distinctions such as the Arrhenius Gold Medal of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (1968) and the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society (1976).
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