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Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior

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Some concepts, seemingly obscure and esoteric became intuitively obvious with this book. A great ``picture book'' that will certainly complement any standard textbook in chaotic dynamics. I may sound like a bookseller. But, hey, this book is good!

It is hard to describe this book without sounding like a bookseller. It is explains the most complex concepts in very simple and elegant "cartoons", so it has the additional advantage of being fun to read. I read the whole thing just a couple of months.

This is one of my favorite books. Chock full of enlightening artwork, page after page of colorful drawings, graphs, representations of springs, sound, heat, and other non-linear, real-world phenomena explained and illustrated for intuitive ease. Even if you're not a scientist, or a mathematics fan - this book will open your eyes to concepts that scientists deal with, and that deeply inspire artists and musicians alike.

It's a little like learning chess, and realizing that almost everything is like chess.
Everything is dynamics!

This is a great book to have as a suppliment to any of the classical dynamical systems books. The book starts with phase diagrams for periodic behaviour then moves on to explain the dynamics of chaotic and bifurcation behaviours entirely in pictures. This book will suppliment traditional nonlinear dynamics courses at advanced undergraduate level.

This is a wonderful guide to nonlinear dynamical systems. Abraham and Shaw emphasize visual over verbal representations of mathematical and dynamical concepts. Some may find the lack of exhaustive text to be a limitation, but I found the visually-based approach to nonlinear dynamic systems to be concise, appealing, and effective.

This is an outstanding and inimitable book on dynamics. Essentially, it is an extensive illustrated guide with very little text, lots of historical remarks and almost no symbolic mathematics (just an appendix at the end). The book covers a lot of concepts and the many charts and drawings succeed in illuminating otherwise complicated ideas. Note that you will not learn dynamics from this book alone but it is definitely the perfect companion for more abstract texts stressing on the conceptual, symbolic and computational aspects of dynamics. It is regrettable that this gem is hard to get now but it is worth to get a good used copy. It will certainly add many ours of intellectual joy to your studies in dynamics. Highly recommendable!