Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science (Hardcover)

Selected Contents: Algorithmic complexity Ball lightning Biological evolution Boundary value problems Butterfly effect Cardiac arrhythmias and electrocardiogram Cellular automata Chaos vs. turbulence Controlling chaos Determinism Dynamical systems Emergence Fluid dynamics Fractals Game of life Laboratory models of nonlinear waves Monte-Carlo methods Multidimensional solitons Neural network models Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics Nonlinear optics Nonlinear Schrödinger equations Nonlinear toys Numerical methods Order from chaos Partial differential equations, nonlinear Period doubling Perturbation theory Population dynamics Quantum chaos Random matrix theory Reaction diffusion systems Sandpile model Spatio-temporal chaos Sine--Gordon (SG) equation Stochastic analyses of neural systems Symmetry groups Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse Threshold phenomena Universality Vortex dominated flows Wave stability and instability