Bifurcation Analysis: Principles, Applications and Synthesis

Hazewinkel, Michiel [Editor]; Jurkovich, R. [Editor]; Pealinck, J.H.P. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 9027714460 / ISBN 13: 9789027714466

Published by Springer, 1984

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• Title: Bifurcation Analysis: Principles, Applications and Synthesis
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027714460
• ISBN 13: 9789027714466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 18 ounces

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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.