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"Evolution of Dynamical Structures in Complex Systems" is dedicated
to the founder of synergetics, Hermann Haken, on the occasion of
his 65th birthday. This volume is an attempt to gather together and
review the new results and de velopments achieved by researchers
from various fields during the last few years. The contents bear
witness to the great success in the development of general
approaches to synergetic systems as well as remarkable progress in
the more tra ditional fields of synergetics such as lasers and
nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, condensed matter physics, biology,
and sociology. Since their inception, the concepts of synergetics
and rigorous mathematical theories have been extended to other
scientific disciplines such as medicine, artifi cial intelligence
and synergetic computers, and psychology. Here too, these ideas
have yielded new insights, raised unexpected questions and produced
innovations in both theoretical and experimental projects. The
conception of self-organization, the central theme of Hermann
Haken' s scientific work, has stimulated epistemo logical studies
that draw relations between synergetics and the German romantic
"Naturphilosophie." It is fascinating to observe how these
intuitive notions of self-organization, etc., have now evolved into
a precise and holistic scientific comprehension of synergetic
systems. We express our deep gratitude to Dr. Angela Lahee from
Springer-Verlag for her valuable help during the preparation of
this book. Stuttgart R. Frjedrjch March 1992 .4.. Wunder}jn
Contents Part I General Approaches On the Principles of Synergetics
By A. Wunderlin ...................................... 3 Elements
of a Synergetics of Evolutionary Processes By W. Ebeling
......................... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 42 ."
"Lasers and Synergetics," written to honour Hermann Haken on his
60th birthday, is concerned with the two main areas of research to
which Prof. Haken has made fundamental contributions. In fact, the
two areas are interrelated since the development of the
interdisciplinary science synergetics has been closely connected
with the emergence of laser theory. Synergetics deals with complex
systems that possess the fundamental property of spontaneous
selforganization of their macroscopic behaviour. The book
summarizes basic ideas, important concepts and principles used to
describe selforganizing systems from a unified viewpoint. Special
attention is paid to lasers, nonlinear optics and to coherence
phenomena in other physical, biological and sociological systems.
Some surveys of historical developments are presented, but most
space is devoted to the publication of recent results and the
description of current research work.
Die Synergetik, die Lehre vom Zusammenwirken, wurde von einem von
uns (Hermann Haken) im Jahre 1969 im Laufe einer Vorlesung an der
Fakultat fur Physik an der Universitat Stuttgart gegrundet. Schon
in den ersten Anfangen dieser neuen Wissen- schaftsdisziplin ist es
gelungen, eine Vielzahl von renommierten Forschern fur die
Problemstellungen dieses Gebietes zu inter- essieren. Der Anspruch
der Synergetik namlich, interdisziplinar zu wirken, insbesondere
auch Verbindungen zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften
herzustellen, hat inzwischen, nicht nur un- ter Wissenschaftlern,
zu ihrer besonderen Attraktivitat beigetra- gen. Dieses Buch ist
einem wichtigen Teilaspekt der Wissen- schaftsdisziplin gewidmet,
namlich den Anwendungen in der un- belebten Natur, der
Forschungsdomane von Physik und Chemie. Aber auch neue
Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Musterer- kennung durch Computer
haben wir hier aufgenommen. Jedoch ist ein Folgeband geplant, der
auch andere Aspekte der Synerge- tik abdecken will, insbesondere
eben ihre Beziehung zu den gei- steswissenschaftlichen
Fragestellungen. Mittlerweile ist eine ganze Serie von Buchern
erschienen, die sich mit dem Thema Synergetik befassen. Vor allem
handelt es sich dabei um Spezialliteratur. Es gibt jedoch ein
popularwissen- schaftliches Buch "Erfolgsgeheimnisse der Natur",
verfasst von einem von uns (H. H.), das die Synergetik ohne
jegliche mathe- matische Formeln darlegt. Die "Bringschuld des
Wissenschaft- lers", die Popularisierung neuer moderner
wissenschaftlicher Er- kenntnisse, bot den Anlass zur Publikation
dieses Buches.
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