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Bifurcation Theory attempts to explain various phenomena that have been discovered and described in the natural sciences over the centuries. The buckling of the Euler rod, the appearance of Taylor vortices, and the onset of oscillations in an electric circuit, for instance, all have a common cause: A specific physical parameter crosses a threshold, and that event forces the system to the organization of a new state that differs considerably from that observed before.
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Kielhöfer, H. (2012). Introduction. In: Bifurcation Theory. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 156. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0502-3_1
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