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Materials and thermodynamics : living and economic systems / Pierre Delhaes

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Materials Science seriesPublication details: India Wiley-ISTE 2017Description: 270 pISBN:
  • 9781786302083
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 536.7 DEL-P
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A thermodynamic system is defined according to its environment and its compliance. This book promotes the classification of materials from generalized thermodynamics outside the equilibrium state and not solely according to their chemical origin.

The author goes beyond standard classification of materials and extends it to take into account the living, ecological, economic and financial systems in which they exist: all these systems can be classified according to their deviation from an ideal situation of thermodynamic equilibrium.

The concepts of dynamic complexity and hierarchy, emphasizing the crucial role played by cycles and rhythms, then become fundamental. Finally, the limitations of the uniqueness of this description that depend on thermodynamic foundations based on the concepts of energy and entropy are discussed in relation to the cognitive sciences.

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