Bifurcation Analysis: Principles, Applications and Synthesis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027714460 ISBN 13: 9789027714466

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984

Synopsis

Bifurcation theory has made a very fast upswing in the last fifteen years. Roughly speaking it generalises to dynamic systems the pos­ sibility of mUltiple solutions, a possibility already recognised in static systems - physical, chemical, social - when operating far from their equilibrium states. It so happened that quite a few staff members of the Erasmus University Rotterdam were thinking along those lines about certain aspects of their disciplines. To have a number of specialists and potential "fans" convene to discuss various aspects of bifurcation­ al thinking, seemed a natural development. The resulting papers were judged to be of interest to a larger public, and as such are logically regrouped in this volume, one in a series of studies resulting from the activities of the Steering Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Although the volume is perhaps multidisciplinary rather than interdisciplinary - the interdisciplinary aspect being only "latent" -, as a "soft" interdisciplinary exercise (the application of formal structures of one discipline to another) it has a right to interdisciplinary existence! This book could not have been published without a generous grant of the University Foundation of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, which allowed the conference to be held and the resulting papers to be published; that generosity is gratefully acknowledged.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027714460
• ISBN 13: 9789027714466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Hazewinkel Michiel, Jurkovich R., Pealinck J.H.P.