One service mathematics has rendered the 'Ht moi, ... Ii j'avait so comment en revenir, je ny _ais point aile': ' human race. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf neJll to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non The series is diwrgent; therefore we may be sense' . ble to do something with it. Eric T. Bell O. H eniside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non linearities abound. Similarly, alI kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a...

This book contains the lectures and a selection of the seminars gi ven in the Fifth International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures which took place in Santiago, Chile, in December 1993. The Workshop was organized by Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Fisica of Universidad Cat6lica de Valparaiso and Centro de Fisica No Lineal y Sistemas Complejos de Santiago. This volume is the first of a new series of Kluwer on Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems which will be edited by the Centro de Fisica No Lineal y Sistemas Complejos...

One service mathematics has rendered the 'Ht moi, ... Ii j'avait so comment en revenir, je ny _ais point aile': ' human race. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf neJll to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non The series is diwrgent; therefore we may be sense' . ble to do something with it. Eric T. Bell O. H eniside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non linearities abound. Similarly, alI kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a...