Dynamical Systems: A Renewal of Mechanism : Centennial of George David BirkhoffThis book commemorates the centenary of the birth of Georges David Birhoff, the father of the theory of Dynamical Systems. It consists of a volume of dedicated papers, reflecting the intellectual revolution of his work. This book is divided into four parts: Fundamental Paradigms ? Chaos, Turbulence, Attractors, Bifurcations; Dynamical Systems and Microphysics; Self-Organization and Biological Dynamical Systems; Epistemology and History. |
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Contents
where do we stand? | 13 |
WILLEMS Models for dynamical phenomena | 29 |
GUMOWSKI Recurrences and the transition from point to | 43 |
P BRUTER Bifurcation and continuity | 70 |
Z MARIC M BOZlC and D DAVIDOVIC Randomness and determinism in | 86 |
FARGUE Particles and classical1ike theories | 104 |
P B SCHEURER Time its structural coding and quantum kinetics | 123 |
VIDAL Spatial selforganization phenomena in chemical systems | 142 |
ZEEMAN Dynamics of Darwinian evolution | 155 |
DEMETRIUS Ergodic theory and dynamical systems in evolutionary | 166 |
G A CARPENTER Some cellbiological mechanisms governing complex | 180 |
J TONNELAT Normal tendency toward formation of singularities | 222 |
MIRA Some historical aspects concerning the theory of | 250 |
S DINER Epilogue | 273 |
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