Synergetics: Chaos, Order, Self-organization

Chaos, Order, Self-Organization

Michael Bushev

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 1994
• Print ISBN: 9789810212865, 9789810212865
• eBook ISBN: 9789814354578
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chaotic Behavior in Systems

For centuries, humankind has believed that the world with all its form and structure was created by supernatural forces. In recent decades science has shaken these beliefs with the discovery of the exciting possibility of a self-created and self-creating world — of self-organization. Synergetics endeavours to reveal the intimate mechanisms of self-organization. The transitions from chaos to order, the nature of self-organization, the various approaches to it and certain philosophical inferences are outlined. Synergetics thus represents a remarkable confluence of many strands of thought, and has become a paradigm in modern culture. This book exposes the reader to striking new vistas in physics and mathematics, chemistry and biology, social sciences and philosophy — all interlocked around the concept of self-organization.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• Part I SYNERGY OF SCIENCES
• Part II CHAOS, ORDER, EVOLUTION
• Part III THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE PROCESSES OF SELF-ORGANIZATION
• Part IV THE NEW ALLIANCE
• APPENDICES
• NAME INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX