History and development of Haken's synergetics

• Main Author: V. V. Yakimtsov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ukrainian National Forestry University 2018-10-01
• Series: Науковий вісник НЛТУ України
• Subjects: self-organization; nonlinear science; system; evolution
• Online Access: https://nv.nltu.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/1744

History of the emergence, establishment and development of Haken's synergetics is thoroughly considered. Synergetics as a quite young view of the world has originated due to the necessity of finding adequate, reasonable, calculated and forecasted by science answers to global challenges that civilizational human development makes. Synergetics is a general theory of self-organization. It formulates the general principles of self-organization, which are true for all levels of matter. A peculiarity of synergetic approach is the transition from research of simple systems to the complex ones, from open to closed ones, from linear to nonlinear ones, from the study of equilibrium and process near the equilibrium to the delocalization and instability, to the investigation of things, which are happening far from equilibrium. The contribution of the science schools and H. Haken to the establishment of synergetics is revealed. This article mentions the perspectives of development of Haken's synergetics, nonlinear dynamics as the methodology of solution to the problems, which the economy and the whole society face. Nonlinear dynamics offers the basic models, new terms and methods, which can or cannot be used in such situation. They can become the framework for building the new nonlinear cognitive paradigm or they can stay the separate discoveries in different disciplines. Synergetics is formed as an interdisciplinary scientific approach, which develops the methods of investigation of open systems' behavior and the complex behavior of their components. The perspectives of the use of synergetics in science research are represented. Some systems in physics, chemistry and biology provide the simplest examples of self-organization. Modern areas of research within the framework of synergetics and nonlinear dynamics are considered. The results formed a strong basis for the further research in the field of economic science regarding synergetics. Synergetics is a powerful mathematical tool to analyze and solve modern nonlinear economic phenomena, which form the synergetic system and can't be described by classic economic-mathematical methods. Synergetics is one of effective approaches to general problems of the description of complexity, characteristic of phenomena of self-organization.