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Record Nr.

UNISA996466497903316

Titolo

Structural stability, the theory of catastrophes, and applications in the sciences : proceedings of the conference held at the Battelle Seattle Research Center, 1975 / / edited by P. Hilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1976]

©1976

ISBN

3-540-38254-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 1976.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 416 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 525

Disciplina

514.7

Soggetti

Catastrophes (Mathematics)

Singularities (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.