Lasers and Synergetics, written to honour Hermann Haken on his 60th birthday, is concerned with the two main areas of research to which Prof. Haken has made fundamental contributions. In fact, the two areas are interrelated since the development of the interdisciplinary science synergetics has been closely connected with the emergence of laser theory. Synergetics deals with complex systems that possess the fundamental property of spontaneous selforganization of their macroscopic behaviour. The book summarizes basic ideas, important concepts and principles used to describe...

"Evolution of Dynamical Structures in Complex Systems" is dedicated to the founder of synergetics, Hermann Haken, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. This volume is an attempt to gather together and review the new results and de velopments achieved by researchers from various fields during the last few years. The contents bear witness to the great success in the development of general approaches to synergetic systems as well as remarkable progress in the more tra ditional fields of synergetics such as lasers and nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, condensed matter physics, biology, and...

Die Synergetik, die Lehre vom Zusammenwirken, wurde von einem von uns (Hermann Haken) im Jahre 1969 im Laufe einer Vorlesung an der Fakultat fur Physik an der Universitat Stuttgart gegrundet. Schon in den ersten Anfangen dieser neuen Wissen schaftsdisziplin ist es gelungen, eine Vielzahl von renommierten Forschern fur die Problemstellungen dieses Gebietes zu inter essieren. Der Anspruch der Synergetik namlich, interdisziplinar zu wirken, insbesondere auch Verbindungen zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften herzustellen, hat inzwischen, nicht nur un ter Wissenschaftlern, zu ihrer besonderen...