Nonlinear Wave Dynamics: Complexity and Simplicity

by Jüri Engelbrecht

Book Overview

At the end of the twentieth century, nonlinear dynamics turned out to be one of the most challenging and stimulating ideas. Notions like bifurcations, attractors, chaos, fractals, etc. have proved to be useful in explaining the world around us, be it natural or artificial. However, much of our everyday understanding is still based on linearity, i. e. on the additivity and the proportionality. The larger the excitation, the larger the response-this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048148332
• ISBN13: 9789048148332
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"