scientific article; zbMATH DE number 107916

Authors Reinhard Mahnke, Jürn Schmelzer, Gerd Röpke

Publication date 23 January 1993

cellular automata classical chaos evolution processes neural networks nonlinear dynamical systems self-reproduction spin glasses stochastic behavior synergetics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to global analysis (58-01)

Review text

This book could have been a good introduction to a number of diverse yet connected areas of nonlinear science and self-organization, if the authors had taken the time and care to expand on what in this form seems to be just a collection of hastily prepared lecture handouts. The topics touched upon range from basic descriptions of the analysis of nonlinear systems (both discrete and continuous) to synergetics, evolution processes, stochastic behavior, self-reproduction, cellular automata, spin glasses, and neural networks. Only in a few cases does the reader get a complete presentation of the topic under discussion. These presentations themselves are rather erratic: the authors have a preference for extensively discussing the obvious, whereas difficult and important points are dealt with rather cursorily. The figures seem to be produced by a dot-matrix printer with a worn-out ribbon, the short index is incomplete and sometimes wrong, and, all in all, this is a book better to be avoided.

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