Download or read book Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications written by Tim Poston and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First integrated treatment of main ideas behind René Thom's theory of catastrophes stresses detailed applications in the physical sciences. Mathematics of theory explained with a minimum of technicalities. Over 200 illustrations clarify text designed for researchers and postgraduate students in engineering, mathematics, physics and biology. 1978 edition. Bibliography.
Download or read book A Geometrical Study of the Elementary Catastrophes written by A.E.R. Woodcock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by Domencio Castrigiano and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe Theory was introduced in the 1960s by the renowned Fields Medal mathematician René Thom as a part of the general theory of local singularities. Since then it has found applications across many areas, including biology, economics, and chemical kinetics. By investigating the phenomena of bifurcation and chaos, Catastrophe Theory proved to
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by Vladimir I. Arnol'd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this non-mathematical review of catastrophe theory contains updated results and many new or expanded topics including delayed loss of stability, shock waves, and interior scattering. Three new sections offer the history of singularity and its applications from da Vinci to today, a discussion of perestroika in terms of the theory of metamorphosis, and a list of 93 problems touching on most of the subject matter in the book.
Download or read book An Introduction to Catastrophe Theory written by Peter Timothy Saunders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-06-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to catastrophe theory, a mathematical theory which deals with those changes which occur abruptly rather than smoothly. Includes many applications to illustrate the different ways in which catastrophe can be used in life, physical and social sciences.
Download or read book The Mathematics Of Natural Catastrophes written by Gordon Woo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book about natural catastrophes, focusing on the mathematical aspects of these phenomena. Although academic in style and didactic in purpose, it is practical in the treatment of the diverse issues covered, which range from hazard warning and forecasting to engineering design criteria and insurance loss estimation. Addressing as it does many mathematical topics not found together in a single volume, the book should be of value to all those with a quantitative educational interest in or professional concern for natural catastrophes.
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by Alexander Edward Richard Woodcock and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains catastrophe theory, which uses geometric shapes to transform abstract concepts into concrete visual pictures, and cites numerous examples to show its usefulness in dealing with problems in economics, psychology, biology, politics, and history.
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory for Scientists and Engineers written by Robert Gilmore and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced-level treatment describes the mathematics of catastrophe theory and its applications to problems in mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering. 28 tables. 397 black-and-white illustrations. 1981 edition.
Download or read book Taylor Expansions and Catastrophes written by T. Poston and published by Pitman Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundations of Catastrophe Theory written by Antal Majthay and published by Pitman Advanced Publishing Program. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory and Applications written by Dilip Kumar Sinha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1981 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by E. C. Zeeman and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1977 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catastrophe Theory is a new mathematical method for describing the evolution of forms in nature. It was created by Rene Thom who wrote a revolutionary book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis in 1972, expanding the philosophy behind the ideas. It is particularly applicable where gradually changing forces produce sudden effects. We often call such effects catastrophes, because our intuition about the underlying continuity of the forces makes the very discontinuity of the effects so unexpected, and this has given rise to the name."--Page 1.
Download or read book Megadisasters written by Florin Diacu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and science behind efforts to predict major disasters, from tsunamis to stock market crashes Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes? The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 claimed more than 200,000 lives. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,800 people and devastated the city of New Orleans. The recent global financial crisis has cost corporations and ordinary people around the world billions of dollars. Megadisasters is a book that asks why catastrophes such as these catch us by surprise, and reveals the history and groundbreaking science behind efforts to forecast major disasters and minimize their destruction. Each chapter of this exciting and eye-opening book explores a particular type of cataclysmic event and the research surrounding it, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, rapid climate change, collisions with asteroids or comets, pandemics, and financial crashes. Florin Diacu tells the harrowing true stories of people impacted by these terrible events, and of the scientists racing against time to predict when the next big disaster will strike. He describes the mathematical models that are so critical to understanding the laws of nature and foretelling potentially lethal phenomena, the history of modeling and its prospects for success in the future, and the enormous challenges to scientific prediction posed by the chaos phenomenon, which is the high instability that underlies many processes around us. Yielding new insights into the perils that can touch every one of us, Megadisasters shows how the science of predicting disasters holds the promise of a safer and brighter tomorrow.
Download or read book Singularities Bifurcations and Catastrophes written by James Montaldi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers, this self-contained textbook provides an introduction to the mathematics lying at the foundations of bifurcation theory. The theory is built up gradually, beginning with the well-developed approach to singularity theory through right-equivalence. The text proceeds with contact equivalence of map-germs and finally presents the path formulation of bifurcation theory. This formulation, developed partly by the author, is more general and more flexible than the original one dating from the 1980s. A series of appendices discuss standard background material, such as calculus of several variables, existence and uniqueness theorems for ODEs, and some basic material on rings and modules. Based on the author's own teaching experience, the book contains numerous examples and illustrations. The wealth of end-of-chapter problems develop and reinforce understanding of the key ideas and techniques: solutions to a selection are provided.
Download or read book Structural Stability the Theory of Catastrophes and Applications in the Sciences written by P. Hilton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a progress report on an experimental program, begun a year ago, in the exploration of resonant furcations (= catastrophes) by analog simulation and direct observation - the macroscope program.
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation Routledge Revivals written by Alan Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of catastrophe theory and bifurcation, which enabled the development of models where a quite sudden change in the position of the equilibrium point results from a slow, small, smooth change in one or more parameters. First published in 1981, this reissue of Professor Wilson’s classic study outlines the implications of these mathematical models for geography and regional science, by way of a survey of contemporary applications.
Download or read book Catastrophe Theory written by Vladimir I. Arnol'd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
