Synergetics

Hermann Haken is Professor of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics. His research has been in nonlinear optics (in particular laser physics), solid state physics, statistical physics, and group theory. After the implementation of the first laser in 1960, Professor Haken developed his institute to an international center for laser theory. The interpretation of the laser principles as self organization of non equilibrium systems paved the way to the development of synergetics, of which Haken is recognized as the founder. Hermann Haken has been visiting professor or guest scientist in England, France, Japan, USA, Russia, and China. He is the author of some 23 textbooks and monographs that cover an impressive number of topics from laser physics to synergetics, and editor of a book series in synergetics. For his pathbreaking work and his influence on academic research, he has been awarded many-times. Among others, he is member of the Order "Pour le merite" and received the Max Planck Medal in 1990.

General Concepts.- Some Aspects of Synergetics.- Radiation and Entropy, Coherence and Negentropy.- What is Catastrophe Theory about?.- Bifurcation Theory.- Bifurcation of a Continuum of Unstable Modes.- The Bifurcation of T-periodic Solutions into nT-periodic Solutions and TORI.- Cooperative Effects in Fluid Problems.- Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics.- Transition to Turbulence in a Fluid Flow.- Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics.- Instabilities in Astrophysics.- Instabilities in Stellar Evolution.- Solitons.- Solitons. I. Basic Concepts.- II. Mathematical Structures.- Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Chemical Reactions.- Chemical Instabilities as Critical Phenomena.- Chemical Evolution far from Equilibrium.- Entropy and Critical Fluctuations in a Stochastic Model of Second Order Nonequilibrium Phase Transition.- Chemical Waves and Turbulence.- Chemical Waves and Chemical Turbulence.- Chemical Turbulence - A Synopsis.- Continuous Chaos.- Morphogenesis.- Morphogenesis - Persistence of Organized Structures and Breakthrough of New Structures.- The Spatial Control of Cell Differentiation by Autocatalysis and Lateral Inhibition.- Regelmäßig periodische Verteilung im Raum.- Biological Systems.- Neurosynergetics.- Biological Control through Long Range Coherence.- General Systems.- Sociocultural Systems and the Challenge of Sociobiology.- Applications of Synergy in Business Administration.- The Linguistic Structure of the Chromosome Genetic Code and Language.