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# Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences)Paperback– September 27, 2000

ISBN-13: 978-0387946771 ISBN-10: 0387946772 Edition: Corrected

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"… Written by some prominent contributors to the development of the field … With regard to both style and content, the authors succeed in introducing junior/senior undergraduate students to the dynamics and analytical techniques associated with nonlinear systems, especially those related to chaos … There are several aspects of the book that distinguish it from some other recent contributions in this area … The treatment of discrete systems here maintains a balanced emphasis between one- and two- (or higher-) dimensional problems. This is an important feature since the dynamics for the two cases and methods employed for their analyses may differ significantly. Also, while most other introductory texts concentrate almost exclusively upon discrete mappings, here at least three of the thirteen chapters are devoted to differential equations, including the Poincare-Bendixson theorem. Add to this a discussion of $\omega$-limit sets, including periodic and strange attractors, as well as a chapter on fractals, and the result is one of the most comprehensive texts on the topic that has yet appeared." Mathematical Reviews

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## Product Details

• Series: Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences
• Paperback: 604 pages
• Publisher: Springer; Corrected edition (September 27, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387946772
• ISBN-13: 978-0387946771
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.4 x 10 inches
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on June 11, 1998
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I was enrolled in a course at GMU in which the draft version of this text was used. The math was not as difficult as some of the graduate texts, therefore it serves as a good intoduction for someone with as little as 2 years of undergraduate math. The challenges at the end of each chapter are more difficult than the regular problems, but they are meant to be. Many of the systems can be modeled on a spreadsheet. If you have any interest in Chaos, this book will only strengthen it.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on February 12, 1998
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This book presents brilliantly the foundations to Dynamical Systems and Chaos. You need to have some Linear Algebra, Calculus and Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations knowledge. Full of exercises, computer experiments and Challenges. I think that the text looses some substance due to the lack of presenting more or all the solutions to the Exercises. They should be solved detailed in a Solutions Manual. Don't try to e-mail the authors for more solutions, they will not get them to you. This point is the only pitty in a text that is a great companion through chaotic dynamics. Also Very Brilliant for me at this Level are: Strogatz-Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Kaplan-Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics, Gulick-Encounters with Chaos, Hilborn-Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Devaney-An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems and A First Course to Chaotic Dynamics, Holmgren-A First Course in Discrete Dynamical Systems. More sofisticated maths but not too far away are: Schuster-Deterministic Chaos(graduate) and Ott-Chaos in Dynamical Systems (graduate).
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful on March 20, 2005
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This book is a must-own for anyone interested in nonlinear dynamics and chaos -- I also highly recommend the "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos" text by Strogatz.

I especially like the numerous diagrams that clarify everything so well in this book. In addition, the writing includes just the right amount of informal discussion to truly explain the material without retreating into jargon.

A favorite moment in the book is a "challenge" exercise that explains the famous "Period Three Implies Chaos" result: the reader is gently guided through 10 steps resulting in a proof of Sharkovskii's Theorem, a more general result that includes the Period 3 thing as a special case.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful on November 19, 2005
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It was about the mid 1990's, still assimilating the big hype caused by the eventual and much-publicized proof by Andrew Wiles of Fermat's Last Theorem, when my curiosity (bolstered more by having seen a movie such as The Jurassic Park!) finally led me to taking a first college course on Chaos and Fractals at a California State school. At that time, the funny, surcastic, and somewhat sloppy foreign professor (who happened to be a country-mate of mine, for better or worse), had chosen the brand-new text "Fractals Everywhere" by Michael F. Barnsely for teaching our mid-size class consisting mainly of senior and first-year graduate students in math and sciences. I recall the discussion starting out by covering the basics about the metric spaces and sequences, and I having a head-start over many others coming fresh on the heels of a heavy-duty general topology course just in the previous semester (so for example I could show off to others on the first instruction day what it meant for two metrics to be equivalent). Still, I admit the semester went by without many of us really absorbing the nuts and bolts of the subject, for example why exactly topological transitivity was needed for chaos in an Iterated Function System, and why exactly some known fractals had the given fractional dimensions (eventhough we could compute them). However the students were generally happy to have scratched the surface of this vast, engaging subject, and for the time being it seemed about enough exposure for most of us.Read more ›
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