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Dynamics and Bifurcations (Texts in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 3)

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As a postgrad student searching for textbooks to cover all those things I learnt about dynamical systems in my undergrad studies, this one was one of my first choices. It is easy to read, which is surprising, considering it's a maths textbook. It is systematic in its treatment of dynamical systems. The important things are easy to find, since the index is very comprehensive and the layout of the page makes formulae stand out. The many diagrams help those of us who think about dynamics geometrically. All in all, a great book, which I use on a regular basis as a reference.

This books succeeds as an introduction to Dynamics and Bifurcations. It has lot's of great pictures and examples. The authors really did a great job in that respect.
Some of the theorems could be described a bit clearer, particularly the ones about Poincare-Hopf-Andronov bifurcations.

This is one of the most inspired books on the subject of dynamical systems.
It has a straight argument, with a very comprehensive text and one may even find it some times poetic.
Yes, I do love and recomend it!

This book is very well written. But I should point out, it kind of focuses on a few parts of differential equations rather than giving a large overview. But the parts it is about are very well written.

As an undergrad who was forced to take a class with a professor who contributed to this book as a grad student, all I can say is that there is a large disconnect between the text and exercises. I also found the book to be ambiguous, maybe because the farther along you go the terser it gets. It also needs more theoretical examples, not just computational ones.