The Versatile Soliton

• Main Author: Filippov, Alexandre T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Birkhäuser Boston, 2010.
• Series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Applications of Mathematics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

The soliton, a solitary wave impulse preserving its shape and strikingly similar to a particle, is one of the most fascinating and beautiful phenomena in the physics of nonlinear waves.  In this classic book, the concept of the soliton is traced from the beginning of the last century to modern times...

Table of Contents:

• An Early History of the Soliton
• A Century and a Half Ago
• The Great Solitary Wave of John Scott Russell
• Relatives of the Soliton
• Nonlinear Oscillations and Waves
• A Portrait of the Pendulum
• From Pendulum to Waves and Solitons
• The Present and Future of the Soliton
• Frenkel’s Solitons
• Rebirth of the Soliton
• Modern Solitons.