Book description
This thoroughly updated version of the German authoritative work on
self-organization has been completely rewritten by internationally
renowned experts and experienced book authors to also include a review
of more recent literature. It retains the original enthusiasm and
fascination surrounding thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium,
synergetics, and the origin of life, representing an easily readable
book and tutorial on this exciting field.
The book is unique in covering in detail the experimental and
theoretical fundamentals of self-organizing systems as well as such
selected features as random processes, structural networks and
multistable systems, while focusing on the physical and theoretical
modeling of natural selection and evolution processes. The authors take
examples from physics, chemistry, biology and social systems, and
include results hitherto unpublished in English.
The result is a one-stop resource relevant for students and scientists
in physics or related interdisciplinary fields, including mathematical
physics, biophysics, information science and nanotechnology. Werner
Ebeling is Professor em. at the prestigious Humboldt University in
Berlin.
His research interests focus on self organization, non-linear systems
and dynamics and quantum statistics.
He has authored a large number of books in three languages, some of them
published with Akademie-Verlag (now part of Wiley) as well as an
impressive array of research papers.
He has been closely working with Rainer Feistel, who also is already
author for Wiley. His research is on thermodynamics of seawater and
theory of complex systems.
He also has authored many papers and books, partly together with Prof.
Ebeling.
