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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1976]; ©1976
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1976.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VIII, 416 p.)
• Disciplina: 514.7
• Soggetto topico: Catastrophes (Mathematics); Singularities (Mathematics)
• Persona (resp. second.): HiltonPeter <1923-2010, >
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Structural stability, the theory of catastrophes, and applications in the sciences
• ISBN: 3-540-38254-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466497903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, . 0075-8434 ; ; 525