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The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. The 22 papers in this collection include the following: Enrico Berti, Ordre et désordre des Grecs à Galilé et de Galilée aux temps modernes (Order and disorder from the Greeks to Galileo and from Galileo to modern times) (25--42); Réné Thom, L'émergence des structures (The emergence of structures) (43--64); Lászlo Lovász, Information and complexity (how to measure them?) (65--80); Adi Shamir, Information, complexity and cryptography (81--93); W. Thirring, The emergence of order and complexity in physics (97--101); Peter H. Richter, Harmony and complexity: order and chaos in mechanical systems (103--127); F. T. Arecchi, Complexity in science: models and metaphors (129--160); C. N. R. Rao, Aspects of order and disorder in complex solids (161--176); Michael Heller, The non-linear universe: creative processes in the universe (191--215); Martin J. Rees, The epoch of galaxy formation (217--233); J. L. Lions, Why is the Earth's environment so stable? (235--248); Josef Seifert, What is life? On the irreducibility of life to chaotic and non-chaotic physical systems (339--368).