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Italo Calvino's Ordering of Chaos
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Palomar's mind has wandered, he has stopped pulling up weeds, he no longer thinks of the lawn: he think of the universe. He is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Mr. Palomar's mind has wandered, he has stopped pulling up weeds. He no longer thinks of the lawn: he thinks of the universe. He Is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn. The universe as regular and ordered cosmos or as chaotic proliferation. The universe perhaps finite but countless, unstable within its borders, which discloses other universes within itself. The universe, collection of celestial bodies, nebulas, fine dust, force fields, Intersections of fields, collections of collections. (\"The Infinite Lawn,\" Mr. Palomar 33)read more
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The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
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The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Chaos: Making a New Science
TL;DR: The chaos theory as mentioned in this paper is an extension of classical mechanics in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact, and the implications are staggeringly universal in all areas of scientific work and philosophical thought.
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Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature.
Ilya Prigogine,Isabelle Stengers +1 more
TL;DR: Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work on the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems, makes his ideas accessible to a wide audience in this book, which has engendered massive debate in Europe and America as discussed by the authors.
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The essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition and change
TL;DR: The Essential Tension as discussed by the authors is a collection of previously published essays by Thomas Kuhn to which the author has added two hitherto unpublished articles and a splendid, partly autobiographical preface.