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David Pouvreau: Une biographie non officielle de Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (pdf-download)

Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Ed.) 2005: Mark Davidson: QuerDenken! Leben und Werk Ludwig von Bertalanffys. Peter Lang, Wien. German version of: Mark Davidson 1983: Uncommon Sense - The Life and Thought of Ludwig von Bertalanffy.

With this book Mark Davidson, writer, journalist and former professor for communication science at the California State University in Dominguez Hills, has set a monument for Bertalanffy and written an easy readable introduction to System Sciences. He describes a school of thought that is particularly suitable to meet the challenges of the global information age.

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Pouvreau D., Drack M., 2007: On the history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy's "General Systemology", and on its relationship to Cybernetics – Part I: Elements on the origins and genesis of Ludwig von Bertalanffy's "General Systemology". International Journal of General Systems 36: 281-337.

Drack M., Apfalter W., Pouvreau D. 2007: On the Making of a System Theory of Life: Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's Conceptual Connection. The Quarterly Review of Biology 82: 349-373.

Drack M., Apfalter W. 2007: Is Paul A. Weiss' and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's system thinking still valid today? System Research and Behavioral Science 24: 537-546.