Instabilities in nonlinear dynamics

paradigms for self-organization

R. K. Bullough

pp. 212-244

in: Ramesh Mishra Kumar, D. Maas, Eduard Zwierlein (eds), On self-organization, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

This paper is concerned with aspects of nonlinear dynamics which may (but indeed may not) have bearing on our ultimate understanding of living matter. It is concerned with dynamical self-organization as well as with aspects of disorganization. A main theme is to show that rather simple causes can have complex effects. These complex consequences are all self-organized in so far as they arise as consequences of the equations governing a dynamics which is stimulated in very simple ways.