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A unique treatment of the soliton, focusing on the properties that make the soliton physically ubiquitous and the soliton equation mathematically miraculous. The soliton is a local traveling wave pulse; a lump-like coherent structure; the solution of a field equation with remarkable stability and particle-like properties. It is a fundamental mode of propagation in gravity- driven surface and internal waves; in atmospheric waves; in ion acoustic and Langmuir waves in plasmas; in some laser waves in nonlinear media; and in many biologic contexts, such as alpha- helix proteins.Newell, Alan C. is the author of 'Solitons in Mathematics and Physics' with ISBN 9780898711967 and ISBN 0898711967.
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