Synchronization
Subtitle: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Science
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780521592857
Subjects: Cybernetics & systems theory; Theoretical methods; Physics; Chaos (Physics); System Theory; Science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Synchronization; General; Science / General; Nonlinear theories
First sentence: The Dutch researcher Christian Huygens (Fig. 1.1), most famous for his studies in optics and the construction of telescopes and clocks, was probably the first scientist who observed and described the synchronization phenomenon as early as in the seventeenth century.