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Author:   Lui Lam (San Jose State Univ, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9789810201418

ISBN 10:   9810201419
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   11 April 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Overview of Nonlinear Physics; Fractals; Chaos; Solitons; Pattern Formation; Cellular Automata and Complex Systems; Sample Projects: A brief description of 17 projects in Nonlinear Physics carried out by senior and graduate students at San Jose State Univ., with references and computer programs; Reprints: Fractal Growth Processes (L M Sander); Multifractal Phenomena in Physuics and Chemistry (H E Stanley & P Meakin); The Devil's Staircase (P Bak); Fractal Geometry in Crumpled Paper Balls (M A F Gromes); Fractal of Large Scale Structure in the Universe (L Z Fang); Chaos (J P Crutchfield et al.); Chaos, Strange Attractors, and Fractal Basin Boundaries in Nonlinear Dynamics (C Grebogi et al.); How Random is a Coin Toss? (J Ford); Chaos in a Dripping Faucet (H N Nunez Yepez et al.); Dendrites, Viscous Fingers, and the Theory of Pattern Formation (J A Langer); Tip Splitting Without Interfacial Tension and Denadritic Growth Patters Arising from Molecular Anisotropy (J Nittmann & H E Stanley); Oblique Roll Instability in an Electroconvective Anisotropic Fluid (R Ribotta et al.); Chemical Waves (J Ross et al.); Soliton Propagation in Liquid Crystals (Lin Leo et al.); Possible Relevance of Soliton Solutions to Superconductivity (T D Lee); Cellular Automata as Models of Complexity (S Wolfram); Quantum Chaos (M C Gutzwiller); Catastrophes and Self-Organized Criticality (P Bak); More is Different (P W Anderson).

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