Order and Fluctuations in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: XVIIth International Solvay Conference on Physics

by Gregoire Nicolis (Editor)

Coverage of the XVIIth Solvay Conference on Physics, held at the Universit? Libre in Brussels from November 20 to November 24, 1978. Provides an account of the different areas of physics where transition to ordered behavior occurs, and reveals the similarities and differences of involved concepts and techniques.

374 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1981

About the author

Grégoire Nicolis was a Belgian physicist originally from Greece. His promotor was Ilya Prigogine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is known for his work on irreversible thermodynamics and chaos theory.