An introduction to synergetics

We introduce basic concepts and principles of synergetics in an elementary way and work out the interdisciplinary aims of this young scientific discipline. To some detail the laser as a system of physics and an application of synergetics to a problem from economics will be presented. A generalization of the methods to a class of functional differential equations will be outlined.

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