Structural Stability, the Theory of Catastrophes, and Applications in the Sciences Proceedings of the Conference held at Battelle Seattle Research Center 1975

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hilton, P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1976, 1976
Edition:1st ed. 1976
Series:Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Subjects:
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Macroscopy of resonance
  • Simulation of cascades by video feedback
  • Pattern recognition by deformable prototypes
  • Nerve impulse equations
  • Remarks on traveling wave solutions of non-linear diffusion equations
  • The topological degree of a finite C? map germ
  • Constant velocity waves in oscillating chemical reactions
  • Conservative systems and two problems of smale
  • Various catastrophe machines
  • Nerve signaling and spatial stability of wave trains
  • Constrained equations; a study of implicit differential equations and their discontinuous solutions
  • The two-fold way of catastrophe theory
  • (r, s)-stable unfoldings and catastrophe theory
  • The classification of elementary catastrophes of codimension ? 5
  • The umbilic bracelet and the double-cusp catastrophe
  • Brain modelling
  • Euler buckling
  • Gastrulation and formation of somites in amphibia and birds
  • Prison disturbances