Synergetics – From Past to Future

We consider the meaning, the role and the prospects of interdisciplinary investigations in the world scientific knowledge. We discuss the theory of self-organization or the synergetics development and its reflection in the book series “Synergetics: From the Past to the Future”. We show that fundamental questions of the modern science and a number of key high technologies bounded with the future of the economy directly depend on the level of interdisciplinary works performed in the country. Synergetics talks now in terms of mathematical models. So their construction, investigation and use are the main way in the development of interdisciplinary approaches.