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Lui Lam, ed.
Introduction to Nonlinear Physics.
Springer. 1997

Contents

• Introduction to Nonlinear Physics. 1997
• Thomas C. Halsey. Fractals and diffusive growth. 1997
• Thomas C. Halsey. Multifractality. 1997
• Thomas C. Halsey. Scaling arguments and diffusive growth. 1997
• Stephen G. Eubank, J. Doyne Farmer. Introduction to dynamical systems. 1997
• Stephen G. Eubank, J. Doyne Farmer. Probability, random processes, and the statistical description of dynamics. 1997
• Stephen G. Eubank, J. Doyne Farmer. Modeling chaotic systems. 1997
• Leonard M. Sander. Phenomenology of growth. 1997
• Leonard M. Sander. Models and applications. 1997
• Integrable systems. 1997
• Nonintegrable systems. 1997
• David E. Heibler, Robert Tatar. Cellular automata and discrete physics. 1997
• Ralph H. Abraham. Vizualization techniques for cellular dynamata. 1997
• Geoffrey K. Vallis. From laminar flow to turbulence. 1997
• Active walks: pattern formation, self-organization, and complex systems. 1997
• Michael Nauenberg. Historical remarks on chaos. 1997

Lui Lam, ed.
Nonlinear Physics for Beginners: fractals, chaos, solitons, pattern formation, cellular automata and complex systems.
World Scientific. 1998

Contents

• Leonard M. Sander. Fractal growth processes. Nature, 322, 789-793. 1986
• M. A. F. Gomes. Fratal geometry n crumpled paper balls. Am. J. Phys., 55, 649-650. 1987
• L. Z. Fang. Fractal of large scale structures in the universe. Mod. Phys. Lett., A1, 601-605. 1986
• Per Bak. The Devil's Staircase. Phys. Today, 39(12), 38-45. 1986
• H. Eugene Stanley, Paul Meakin. Multifractal phenomena in physics and chemistry. Nature, 335, 405-409. 1988
• Lui Lam, R. D. Freimuth, J. L. Drake. Simlpe mutlifractals with Sierpinski Gasket supports. 1992
• James P. Crutchfield, J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, Robert S. Shaw. Chaos. Sci. Am., 254(12), 46-58. 1986
• H. N. Nunes Yepez, A. L. Salas Brito, C. A. Vargas, L. A. Vicente. Chaos in a dripping faucet. Eur. J. Phys., 10, 99-105. 1989
• Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, James A. Yorke. Chaos, strange attractors, and fractal basin boundaries in nonlinear dynamics. Science, 238, 632-638. 1987
• George Sugihara, Robert M. May. Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series. Nature, 344, 734-741. 1990
• Edward Ott, Mark L. Spano. Controlling chaos. Phys. Today, 48(5), 34-40. 1995
• Martin C. Gutzwiller. Quantum chaos. Sci. Am., 266(1), 78-84. 1992
• Joseph Ford. How random is a coin toss?. Phys. Today, 36(4), 40-47. 1983
• R. K. Bullough. Solitons. Phys. Bulletin, Feb, 78-82. 1978
• Lin Lei, Chang-Qing Shu, Shen Juelian, P. M. Lam, Huang Yun. Soliton propagation in liquid crystals. Phys. Rev. Lett., 49, 1335-1338. 1982
• T. D. Lee. Possible relevance of soliton solutions to superconductivity. Nature, 330, 460-461. 1987
• J. S. Langer. Dendrites, viscous fingers, and the theory of pattern formation. Science, 243, 1150-1156. 1989
• Johann Nittmann, H. Eugene Stanley. Tip splitting without interfacial tension and dendritic growth patterns arising from molecular anisotrpy. Nature, 321, 663-668. 1986
• R. Ribotta, A. Joets, Lin Lei. Oblique roll instability in an electroconvective anisotropic fluid. Phys. Rev. Lett., 56, 1595-1597. 1986
• A. Joets, R. Ribotta, Lui Lam. Critical behavior in the transitions to convective flows in nematic liquid crystals. 1988
• John Ross, Stefan C. Muller, Christian Vidal. Chemical waves. Science, 240, 460-465. 1988
• Philip W. Anderson. More is Different. Science, 177, 393-396. 1972
• Stephen Wolfram. Cellular automata as models of complexity. Nature, 311, 419-424. 1984
• Per Bak. Catastrophes and self-organized criticality. Comput. Phys., 5, 430-433. 1991
• Lui Lam, Rocco D. Pochy. Active-walker models: growth and form in nonequilibrium systems. Comput. Phys., 7, 534-541. 1993
• Lui Lam, Chang-Qing Shu, Sabine Bodefeld. Active walks and path dependent phenomena in social systems. 1997