The Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal address:Norbert Wiener and the idea of contingence

Kybernetes

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 825-834

  Prigogine, Ilya ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Mechanics; Philosophy; Physics

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; GOLD; MECHANICS; PHYSICS;

HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN USE; NEW PHYSICS; PHILOSOPHY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 3843054673     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920010342008     Document Type: Article

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