| Preface |
| Introduction / 1： |
| Synchronization Without Formulae / Part I： |
| Basic notions: the self-sustained oscillator and its phase / 2： |
| Synchronization of a periodic oscillator by external force / 3： |
| Synchronization of two and many oscillators / 4： |
| Synchronization of chaotic systems / 5： |
| Detecting synchronization in experiments / 6： |
| Phase Locking and Frequency Entrainment / Part II： |
| Synchronization of periodic oscillators by periodic external action / 7： |
| Mutual synchronization of two interacting periodic oscillators / 8： |
| Synchronization in the presence of noise / 9： |
| Phase synchronization of chaotic systems / 10： |
| Synchronization in oscillatory media / 11： |
| Populations of globally coupled oscillators / 12： |
| Synchronization of Chaotic Systems / Part III： |
| Complete synchronization I: basic concepts / 13： |
| Complete synchronization II: generalizations and complex systems / 14： |
| Synchronization of complex dynamics by external forces / 15： |
| Discovery of synchronization by Christiaan Huygens / Appendix 1： |
| Instantaneous phase and frequency of a signal / Appendix 2： |
| References |
| Index |
| Cycling attractors of coupled cell systems and dynamics with symmetry / Ashwin ; Rucklidge ; Sturman |
| Modelling diversity by chaos and classification by synchronization / De Feo ; Hasler |
| Basic Principles of Direct Chaotic Communications / Dmitriev ; Panas ; Zakharchenko |
| Prevalence of Milnor Attractors and Chaotic Itinerancy in 'High'-dimensional Dynamical Systems / Kaneko |
| Generalization of the Feigenbaum-Kadanoff-Shenker Renormalization and Critical Phenomena Associated with the Golden Mean Quasiperiodicity / Kuznetsov |
| Synchronization and clustering in ensembles of coupled chaotic oscillators / Maistrenko ; Popovych ; Yanchuk |
| Nonlinear Phenomena in Nephron-Nephron Interaction / Mosekilde ; Sosnovtseva ; Holstein-Rathlou |
| Synchrony in Globally Coupled Chaotic, Periodic, and Mixed Ensembles of Dynamical Units / Ott ; So ; Barreto ; Antonsen |
| Phase synchronization of regular and chaotic self-sustained oscillators / Pikovsky ; Rosenblum |
| Control of dynamical systems via time-delayed feedback and unstable controller / Pyragas |
| Preface |
| Introduction / 1： |
| Synchronization Without Formulae / Part I： |
| Basic notions: the self-sustained oscillator and its phase / 2： |
| Synchronization of a periodic oscillator by external force / 3： |
| Synchronization of two and many oscillators / 4： |
