Solitons in Physics, Mathematics, and Nonlinear Optics /
This volume includes some of the lectures given at two workshops, "Solitons in Physics and Mathematics" and "Solitons in Nonlinear Optics and Plasma Physics" held during the 1988-89 IMA year on Nonlinear Waves. Since their discovery by Kruskal and Zabusky in the early 1960's...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1990.
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| Series: | IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications ;
25. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume includes some of the lectures given at two workshops, "Solitons in Physics and Mathematics" and "Solitons in Nonlinear Optics and Plasma Physics" held during the 1988-89 IMA year on Nonlinear Waves. Since their discovery by Kruskal and Zabusky in the early 1960's, solitons have had a profound impact on many fields, ranging from engineering and physics to algebraic geometry. The present contributions represent only a fraction of these areas, but give the reader a good overview of several current research directions, including optics, fluid dynamics, inverse scattering, cellular automata, Bäcklund equations, symmetries and Hamiltonian systems. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages 37 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9781461390336 (electronic bk.) 1461390338 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0940-6573 ; |