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	A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY
		Ludwig Von Bertalanffy was a Hungarian biologist educated in Vienna, a member of the famed "Vienna School." He fathered an organismic approach to biology as a reaction to the vitalism-reductionism arguments that were rampant in his day.
		Von Bertalanffy explained that he thought of the idea of General System Theory back in 1936 but hesitated until 1948 when the intellectual climate was more receptive.
		This led Von Bertalanffy to postulate a new discipline called, "General System Theory," its subject matter being the formulation and derivation of those principles which are valid for systems in general.
	www.n4bz.org /gst/gst1.htm (569 words)

	Soft Systems Methodology: Its Origins and Use in Librarianship
		Von Bertalanffy argued that while classical science employed basic mathematical notions such as number and species, taxonomies, relationships among elements of a system must also be accounted for.
		Vickers and von Bertalanffy were reacting to their own conceptions of the physics of their days, and perhaps unduly to classical models inherited from previous centuries.
		Von Bertalanffy and Vickers argued that organizations and societies had been thought of in the thermodynamic terms descriptive of closed systems (particularly the law of entropy).
	valinor.ca /ssm3.html (7122 words)

	Ludwig von Bertalanffy - General System Theory - 1950
		Systems theory was proposed in the 1940's by the biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy and furthered by Ross Ashby.
		von Bertalanffy was reacting agaInst both reductionism and attempting to revive the unity of science.
		von Bertalanffy also noted that they are open to, and interact with their environments.
	www.sos.net /~donclark/history_isd/bertalanffy.html (186 words)

	Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901--1972) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this critical review of morphogenetic theories Bertalanffy tried to solve the crucial issue of reduction, namely, whether the categories of biology are different from the physical ones, or whether an absolute reduction from the biological domain to the physical one is possible at all.
		No doubt, the person Bertalanffy was a very fascinating one, proud of his European background, a connoisseur of architectural drawings, Japanese woodcuts, and stamps, who loved to hear the music of Mozart and Beethoven and to become absorbed in the works of Goethe.
		The greatest merit of Bertalanffy, beneath his outstanding work on theoretical biology, was to have pushed forward the development of the modern system theories that nowadays study non-stationary structures and the dynamics of self-organization.
	www.isss.org /lumLVB.htm (2037 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ludwig von Bertalanffy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (September_19, 1901, Vienna, Austria - June_12, 1972, New York, USA) was a biologist who was a founder of general systems theory.
		The individual growth model published by von Bertanlanffy in 1934 is widely used in biological models and exists in a number of permutations.
		Bertalanffy, L. von, (1934).Untersuchungen über die Gesetzlichkeit des Wachstums.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ludwig_von_Bertalanffy (273 words)

	Basic Concepts of the Systems Approach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		von Bertalanffy noted that all systems studied by physicists are closed: they do not interact with the outside world.
		When a physicist makes a model of the solar system, of an atom, or of a pendulum, he or she assumes that all masses, particles, forces that affect the system are included in the model.
		However, as a biologist von Bertalanffy knew that such an assumption is simply impossible for most practical phenomena.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /SYSAPPR.html (1651 words)

	Key Theorists/Theories in Psychology - LUDWIG VON BERTALANFFY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy was born in 1901 in Atzgersdorf near Vienna, and died in 1972 in Buffalo, New York.
		The task itself was taken up by Bertalanffy who, interested in the broadest implications of his conception, went beyond biology to consider psychological, social and historical levels of organization.
		He conceived of a general theory capable of elaborating principles and models that were applicable to all systems, whatever the nature of their parts and the level of their organization.
	www.psy.pdx.edu /PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/vonBertalanffy.htm (651 words)

	Ludwig von Bertalanffy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 septembre, 1901, Vienne, Autriche - 12 juin, 1972, New York, USA) est un biologiste fondateur de la théorie générale des systèmes.
		Le modèle de croissance individuelle publié par von Bertanlanffy en 1934 est largement utilisé dans les modèles biologiques et existe dans un certain nombre de variantes.
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy,(1934) Untersuchungen über die Gesetzlichkeit des Wachstums.
	encyclopedie.snyke.com /articles/ludwig_von_bertalanffy.html (219 words)

	Fulfilling von Bertalanffy's Vision
		There can be no doubt that Ludwig von Bertalanffy's work represents one of the most important theoretical contributions of the 20th century.
		(Von Bertalanffy played a direct role in founding the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Research, later renamed the International Society for the Systems Sciences, but many other systems and cybernetics organizations have also made important contributions over the years.)
		In the early days, during the 1950s and 1960s, it was hoped that a search for 'isomorphies' and common properties in various kinds of systems would in time illuminate the underlying causal dynamics and ultimately lead to a unified, 'general' theory of systems.
	www.complexsystems.org /abstracts/vonbert.html (869 words)

	Ludwig von Bertalanffy
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901 - 1972) was a biologist who invented General Systems Theory.
		An Austrian citizen, he did much work in the United States.
		However, he experienced discrimination at the behest of American academe in that he declined to portray himself as a victimised refugee from Nazism and returned to work in Europe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vo/Von_Bertalanffy,_Ludwig.html (67 words)

	George Braziller, Inc. * Independent Publishing Since 1955
		Gathered here are Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general system theory, selected and edited to show the evolution of systems theory and to present its applications to problem solving.
		An attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, demography, and psychology.
		A German-Canadian biologist and philosopher, von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) was the creator and echief exponent of general system theory.
	www.georgebraziller.com /catalog/nonfiction/generalsystemstheory.html (87 words)

	General Systems Theory
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy, a biologist, is considered the father of General Systems Theory, and almost every field of science (physical, social, and mathematical) has contributed to its development.
		In recent years an increasing deterioration of the way humanity is still surviving has become the main challenge for the Systems Community.
		The General Systems Theory conceived originally by Bertalanffy need to be developed from now onward through a systematic confrontation with the numerous problems that composed the most serious crisis ever faced by humankind.
	www.crossroad.to /Quotes/globalism/systems-theory.htm (847 words)

	INFOAMÉRICA - Ludwig von Bertalanffy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bertalanffy no no puede continuar en Estados Unidos por no aceptar el subterfugio legal de declararse víctima del nazismo y regresa a Europa.
		Bertalanffy era consciente de que su propuesta de cambio en los marcos de registro del conocimiento conectaba con las necesidades de la ciencia en su deriva hacia la construcción de una realidad cada vez más compleja.
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972): A Pioneer of General Systems Theory por Thaddus E. Weckowicz
	www.infoamerica.org /teoria/bertalanffy1.htm (509 words)

	Von Bertalanffy, Ludwig - Encyclopedia of Earth
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901 - 1972) was an Austrian biologist who first proposed the basic tenets of general systems theory and applied the system methodology to the social sciences.
		In General Systems Theory (1968), he reacted against reductionism and emphasized that real systems are open to, and interact with, their environments, and that they can acquire qualitatively new properties through emergence, resulting in continual evolution.
		Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (International Society for the Systems Sciences)
	www.eoearth.org /article/Von_Bertalanffy,_Ludwig (287 words)

	Ludwig von Bertalanffy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Davidson, Uncommon Sense: The Life and Thought of Ludwig Von Bertalanffy (1983), J. Tarcher, ISBN 0-87477-165-X
		The Relevance of General Systems Theory: Papers Presented to Ludwig Von Bertalanffy on His Seventieth Birthday (1972), New York: George Braziller, ISBN 0-8076-0659-6
		International Society for the Systems Sciences' biography of Ludwig von Bertalanffy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ludwig_von_Bertalanffy (556 words)

	Systems Thinking
		GST was originally proposed by Hungarian biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy in 1928.
		He proposed that 'a system is characterized by the interactions of its components and the nonlinearity of those interactions.' Kuhn (the originator of the “paradigm shift”) applied the GSP to culture and society, and he saw cultures as interlinking subsystems of a broader planetary society.
		Protégé of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, whose biology text books were used by Hitler, the following is appears on the back cover of Laszlo's book, The Systems View of the World:
	www.crossroad.to /Excerpts/community/system-theory.htm (3087 words)

	Bibliography
		John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener : from Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death.
		The Relevance of general systems theory; papers presented to Ludwig von Bertalanffy on his seventieth birthday.
		Laszlo is perhaps the best of the followers of Von B, and much more than that.
	www.visual-chaos.org /complexity/background/books.html (628 words)

	Digest -- ISSS 2002 -- Middle Human Science (Ludwig von Bertalanffy Lecture) -- John Warfield, August 3, 2002
		Middle Human Science (Ludwig von Bertalanffy Lecture) -- John Warfield, August 3, 2002
		Bertalanffy sitting on a chair, reading a newspaper, enjoying himself.
		Please contact the author(s) prior to reproduction or further distribution of the materials.
	www.systemicbusiness.org /digests/isss2002/08031120_warfield.html (798 words)

	Amazon.com - General System Theory
		Ludwig Von, Bertalanffy, Ludwig Von Bartalanffy / Paperback / Published 1976
		Von Bertalanffy L / Paperback / Published 1976
		Ludwig Von Bertalanffy / Hardcover / Published 1976
	www.combusem.com /BSGENSYS.HTM (550 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
		KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
		von Bertalanffy, L. An essay on the relativity of categories.
		von Bertalanffy, L. Tatsachen und Theorien der Formbildung als Weg zum Lebensproblem.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/V/Von_BertalanffyL.html (55 words)

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		by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, Reinhard Laue, Walter Beier
		The Relevance of General Systems Theory : Papers Presented to Ludwig Von Bertalanffy on His Seventieth Birthday
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	General Systems Theory
		It investigates both the principles common to all complex entities, and the (usually mathematical) models which can be used to describe them."
		General Systems Theory David S. Walonick, Ph.D. General systems theory was originally proposed by Hungarian biologist Ludwig von
		Ludwig Von Bertalanffy was a Hungarian biologist educated in Vienna, a member of the famed "Vienna School."
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