Talk:Ilya Prigogine

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Contents 1 Name 2 Controversies 3 WikiProject class rating 4 References

[edit] Name

Any idea how to pronounce his name? Maybe this could be listed somewhere...

If it is pronounced like in russian (Пригожин), then it sounds like: p as p in play; r as r in read; i as i in insect (well, not sure about this); g as g in got; o as aw in saw; g as s in vision; i as i in insect; n as n in now; e - [not pronounced].

With the emphasize on sound "o". Jackbars 20:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Answer: Your guess is correct, you can hear it at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?Prigogine. It would be nice to add the pronounciation to the article.

At the point of bifurcation a system, as it passes through the instability, spontaneously emerges as a system of higher complexity. It has been said that at the point of 'emergence' the original system has an infinite number of pathways it can choose from before it reaches it's state of higher complexity. Or is it the case that as the system becomes more complex the number of pathways it has to choose from diminishes, until we are left with a system of "penultimate complexity" which has only one pathway it can 'choose'. This would have some interesting implications for Evolutionary Theory.

[edit] Controversies

His theory is not well-accepted in scientific community, partly due to its own flaw, partly because the way he has promoted it. I remembered in 80s and 90s there was a cult-like passion for dissipative system (outside chemistry/physics, ironically) which had disgusted many...and eventually this trend faded out. 05:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes I have also heard about the nonacceptance of his theories... it would be nice to get some detail

on what the faults are in his theories. This is important, since this guy won a Noble, there should

be some discussion on the problems of his contributions. Dru007 13:24, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I just found a good link where someone describes the flaws in his theories. I'm probably not competent to

paraphrase it in the main article, so I will just give the link here and hopefully someone with some expertise

can work it into a paragraph:

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/prigogine.html

Dru007 23:35, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

• Grégoire Nicolis (2003). "Obituary: Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003): Structure Formation Far from Equilibrium". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 42 (29): 3324 - 3325. doi:10.1002/anie.200390530. 
• André de Palma. "In Memoriam: Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003)". Transportation Science 37 (3): 255-256. doi:10.1287/trsc.37.3.255.16048. 
• Albert Goldbeter (2003). "Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003)". Journal of Biosciences 28 (6): 657-659. doi:0.1007/BF02708424. 
• Erkki Brändas (2004). "A tribute to Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)". International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 98 (2): 59 - 59. doi:10.1002/qua.10880. 
• A. Sanfeld, M. G. Velarde (2004). "Ilya Priogogine and the classical thermodynamics of irreversible processes". Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics 29 (1): 1-8. doi:10.1515/JNETDY.2004.001. 
• Gustafson, Karl (2003). "Professor Ilya Prigogine: January 25, 1917 -- May 28, 2003 A Personal and Scientific Remembrance". Mind and Matter 1 (1): 9-13. 

--Stone (talk) 10:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)