Ilya Prigogine
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Ilya Prigogine was born in Moscow on January 25, 1917, a few months before the Russian Revolution. His family fled Russia soon after the Revolution and moved to Germany. When Prigogine was still a young boy his family moved again to Belgium. Prigogine obtained an undergraduate degree and, in 1941, a doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Prigogine concentrated his career on better understanding the role of time's impact on biological processes. His work has contributed greatly to the understanding of irreversible processes. He was a professor of Physics and Chemical engineering at the University of Texas and the author of 20 books and roughly 1,000 research articles. Prigogine received 53 degrees and numerous international awards and in 1977 he received the Noble Prize in chemistry for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures. At the end of his life Prigogine was directing the International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry in Brussels, Belgium. He died on May 28, 2003, in Brussels.
Books
The end of certainty
Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine discusses the irreversibility of time and his findings impact on the laws of physics.
Order out of chaos
"In this paper, I intend to investigate a conception of music theory that stems from my own musical philosophy regarding functional harmony and eventually use it as a compositional tool. I will postulate a formal 'harmonization problem' and apply various randomized heuristics to approximate solutions. In doing so, I hope to codify aspects of my own compositional process in the program I write, and observe the effect of changing the parameters of this program on the resulting 'style' of the harmonization"--Introduction.