Autor: V.E. Zakharov

In the twenty years since Zabusky and Kruskal coined the term «soliton», this concept changed the outlook on certain types of nonlinear phenomena and found its way into all branches of physics. The …

In the last ten to fifteen years there have been many important developments in the theory of integrable equations. This period is marked in particular by the strong impact of soliton theory in many …

In 1979, a historical meeting took place at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kiev, USSR, where 48 American Scientists, specialists in nonlinear and turbulent processes, met for two weeks with …

The idea of devoting a complete book to this topic was born at one of the Workshops on Nonlinear and Turbulent Processes in Physics taking place reg- ularly in Kiev. With the exception of E. D. …