Statistical Mechanics, Signed (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author. Back cover has faint rubbing, front cover has tiny crease on top right corner, text block has a couple tiny black spots, otherwise book is in excellent condition, clean and crisp with nice pages and covers.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. . . . . 4to, hardcover. No dj. Near fine condition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front endpaper. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 397 pp. Dynamics, Nonlinear, Physics, Science, Systems, 0444869328. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Inscribed by Ilya Prigogine to Ali Bulent Cambel on front end page. Volume 1. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. viii, 319 pages, illustrations, 24 cm. "Ilya Prigogine was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Prigogine's work dealt with the application of the second law of thermodynamics to complex systems, including living organisms. The second law states that physical systems tend to slide spontaneously and irreversibly toward a state of disorder (a process driven by an increase in entropy); it does not, however, explain how complex systems could have arisen spontaneously from less-ordered states and have maintained themselves in defiance of the tendency toward maximum entropy. Prigogine argued that as long as systems receive energy and matter from an external source, nonlinear systems (or dissipative structures, as he called them) can go through periods of instability and then self-organization, resulting in more-complex systems whose characteristics cannot be predicted except as statistical probabilities. Prigogine's work was influential in a wide variety of fields, from physical chemistry to biology, and was fundamental to the new disciplines of chaos theory and complexity theory." "Ali Bulent Cambel taught mechanical engineering and gas dynamics at Northwestern University where he became the Walter P. Murphy Distinguished Professor. He advised the US government on energy projects and served as Vice President for Research for the Institute for Defense Analysis. Working for the government represented his way to give back to his adopted country.". Signed.

320 S. OPp. Proceedings of the Josef Loschmidt Symposium, held June 25-27, 1995, in Vienna, Austria. Signiert: Mit persönlicher Widmung des Herausgebers Thomas Schönfeld auf dem Vorsatz.