This text will be replaced by the correThis book is aimed to a broad audience of researchers and students who are interested in questions of structure formation in complex systems in nature and society.
Images from the history of synergetics.- Part I: Synergetic view on historic experiments.- The Swinging chromium.- Liesegang structures.- Runge pictures.- Part II: Fractal structure in chemistry and biology.- Fractal metal zinc-trees.- The fractal character of modified zeolites.- Pattern of sea shells modelled by one-dimensional automata.- Part III: Dissipative structures.- Waves which move uphill.- Dissipative sculpturing of beige jasper of the eastern desert of Egypt.- Complex dissipative structures mainly at liquid/liquid and liquid/gas inter-phases.- Cooperation of flow instabilities.- The oscillatory regime of Marangoni-instability.- Part IV: Structure formation in social systems.- Creativity – comments to the scientific process.- Mother Hulda and the Blue Sky Catastrophe.- Part V: Kaleidoscope.- Small contributions to a variety of complex pattern formation processes.