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TitleWhat is Life ?
AuthorSchrodinger, Erwin
Asset Number00353
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN
Published Date1955
Edition1
Printing5
Description
Cloth hardcover with clipped dust jacket.
 
Schrodinger explains that living matter evades the decay to thermodynamical equilibrium by homeostatically maintaining negative entropy in an open system. In chapter VII, he maintains that "order-from-order" is not absolutely new to physics; in fact, it is even simpler and more plausible.
CategoryLife Science
EpochVintage
Date Acquired24/04/2021
Condition(2) Very Good