Chaos, Nonlinearity, Complexity : The Dynamical Paradigm of Nature
- Author
- A. Sengupta
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Engineering
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This carefully edited book presents a focused debate on the mathematics and physics of chaos, nonlinearity and complexity in nature. It explores the role of non-extensive statistical mechanics in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and presents an overview of the strong nonlinearity of chaos and complexity in natural systems that draws on the relevant mathematics from topology, measure-theory, inverse and ill-posed problems, set-valued analysis, and nonlinear functional analysis. It presents a self-contained scientific theory of complexity and complex systems as the steady state of non-equilibrium systems, denoting a homeostatic dynamic equilibrium between stabilizing order and destabilizing disorder.
Keywords: Engineering / Chaos / Nonlinear Functional Analysis / Nonlinearity / Complex system / Complex systems / Complexity / Dynamische Systeme / Linearity / Mechanics / Resonance / Statistics / Thermodynamics
