Synergetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Goal

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   Pages 1-16

3. Probability

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   Pages 17-40

4. Information

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   Pages 41-67

5. Chance

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   Pages 69-103

6. Necessity

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   Pages 105-146

7. Chance and Necessity

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   Pages 147-189

8. Self-Organization

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   Pages 191-227

9. Physical Systems

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   Pages 229-274

10. Chemical and Biochemical Systems

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    Pages 275-303

11. Applications to Biology

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    Pages 305-326

12. Sociology and Economics

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    Pages 327-332

13. Chaos

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    Pages 333-349

14. Some Historical Remarks and Outlook

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    Pages 351-353

15. Back Matter

    Pages 355-390

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Over the past years the field of synergetics has been mushrooming. An ever­ increasing number of scientific papers are published on the subject, and numerous conferences all over the world are devoted to it. Depending on the particular aspects of synergetics being treated, these conferences can have such varied titles as "Nonequilibrium Nonlinear Statistical Physics," "Self-Organization," "Chaos and Order," and others. Many professors and students have expressed the view that the present book provides a good introduction to this new field. This is also reflected by the fact that it has been translated into Russian, Japanese, Chinese, German, and other languages, and that the second edition has also sold out. I am taking the third edition as an opportunity to cover some important recent developments and to make the book still more readable. First, I have largely revised the section on self-organization in continuously extended media and entirely rewritten the section on the Benard instability. Sec­ ond, because the methods of synergetics are penetrating such fields as eco­ nomics, I have included an economic model on the transition from full employ­ ment to underemployment in which I use the concept of nonequilibrium phase transitions developed elsewhere in the book. Third, because a great many papers are currently devoted to the fascinating problem of chaotic motion, I have added a section on discrete maps. These maps are widely used in such problems, and can reveal period-doubling bifurcations, intermittency, and chaos.

• bifurcation
• biology
• chaos
• diffusion
• eigenvalue
• entropy
• equilibrium
• path integral
• phase transition
• solution
• stability
• statistical mechanics
• synergetics
• system
• thermodynamics

• Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Hermann Haken

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