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Evolution of Order and Chaos [electronic resource] : in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Schloß Elmau, Bavaria, April 26-May 1, 1982 / edited by Hermann Haken

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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1982.
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1st ed. 1982.
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VIII, 290 pages 47 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color : online resource
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Haken, H. and SpringerLink (Online service)
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I Introduction -- Introductory Remarks -- II Evolution -- Ursprung und Evolution des Lebens auf molekularer Ebene -- III Coherence in Biology -- The Crystallization and Selection of Dynamical Order in the Evolution of Metazoan Gene Regulation -- The Synergetics of Actin-Myosin in Active Streaming and Muscle Contraction -- IV Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology -- Pattern Formation in Magnetic Fluids -- Thermoelastic Instabilities in Metals -- Spatial Chemical Structures, Chemical Waves. A Review -- Spontaneous Biological Pattern Formation in the Three Dimensional Sphere. Prepatterns in Mitosis and Cytokinesis -- Generation of Projections in the Developing and Regenerating Nervous System -- V Order and Chaos in Quantum Electronics and Fluids -- Optical Bistability, Self-Pulsing and Higher Order Bifurcations -- Benard Convection and Laser with Saturable Absorber. Oscillations and Chaos -- Bistability and Chaos in NMR Systems -- The Onset of Turbulence in the Wake of an Ion -- VI Order in Chaos -- Diversity and Universality. Spectral Structure of Discrete Time Evolution -- Onset of Chaos in Fluid Dynamics -- Transition to Chaos for Maps with Positive Schwarzian Derivative -- Scaling Properties of Discrete Dynamical Systems -- Phase Transitions in the Homoclinic Regime of Area Preserving Diffeomorphisms -- Noise Scaling of Symbolic Dynamics Entropies -- Dimension, Fractal Measures, and Chaotic Dynamics -- VII Chaos in Quantum Systems -- Cooperative and Chaotic Effects in a Hamiltonian Model of the Free-Electron Laser -- Chaos in Quantum Mechanics -- VIII Emergence of Order or Chaos in Complex Systems -- Criticality and the Emergence of Structure -- Strange Stability in Hierarchically Coupled Neuropsychobiological Systems -- List of Contributors.
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9783642688089
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