Hermann Haken

Synergetics (eBook, PDF)

Introduction and Advanced Topics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an often-requested reprint of two classic texts by H. Haken: "Synergetics. An Introduction" and "Advanced Synergetics". Synergetics, an interdisciplinary research program initiated by H. Haken in 1969, deals with the systematic and methodological approach to the rapidly growing field of complexity. Going well beyond qualitative analogies between complex systems in fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, biology, sociology and economics, Synergetics uses tools from theoretical physics and mathematics to construct an unifying framework within which quantitative descriptions of complex, self-organizing systems can be made.

This may well explain the timelessness of H. Haken's original texts on this topic, which are now recognized as landmarks in the field of complex systems. They provide both the beginning graduate student and the seasoned researcher with solid knowledge of the basic concepts and mathematical tools. Moreover, they admirably convey the spirit of the pioneering work by the founder of Synergetics through the essential applications contained herein that have lost nothing of their paradigmatic character since they were conceived.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 764
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783662101841
• Artikelnr.: 53136042

Autorenporträt

Hermann Haken is Professor of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics. His research has been in nonlinear optics (in particular laser physics), solid state physics, statistical physics, and group theory. After the implementation of the first laser in 1960, Professor Haken developed his institute to an international center for laser theory. The interpretation of the laser principles as self organization of non equilibrium systems paved the way to the development of synergetics, of which Haken is recognized as the founder. Hermann Haken has been visiting professor or guest scientist in England, France, Japan, USA, Russia, and China. He is the author of some 23 textbooks and monographs that cover an impressive number of topics from laser physics to synergetics, and editor of a book series in synergetics. For his pathbreaking work and his influence on academic research, he has been awarded many-times. Among others

, he is member of the Order "Pour le merite" and received the Max Planck Medal in 1990.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Goal.- Probability.- Information.- Chance.- Necessity.- Chance and Necessity.- Self-Organization.- Physical Systems.- Chemical and Biochemical Systems.- Applications in Biology.- Sociology and Economics.- Chaos.- Some Historical Remarks and Outlook.- Part II: Linear Ordinary Differential Equations.- Linear Ordinary Differential Equations with Quasiperiodic Coefficients.- Stochastic Nonlinear Differential Equations.- The World of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators.- Nonlinear Coupling of Oscillators: The Case of Persistence of Quasiperiodic Motion.- Nonlinear Equations. The Slaving Principle.- Nonlinear Equations. Qualitative Macroscopic Changes.- Spatial Patterns.- The Inclusion of Noise.- Discrete Noisy Maps.- Example of an Unsolvable Problem in Dynamics.- Some Comments on the Relation Between Synergetics and Other Sciences.