| Bifurcation Analysis: Principles, Applications and Synthesis 1985 Edition Contributor(s): Hazewinkel, Michiel (Editor), Jurkovich, R. (Editor), Pealinck, J. H. P. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 940096241X ISBN-13: 9789400962415 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Differential Equations - General - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Business & Economics | Urban & Regional |
| Dewey: 515.355 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.85 lbs) 260 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |