This book is an in-depth and broad text on the subject of chaos in dynamical systems. It is intended to serve both as a graduate course text for science and engineering students, and as a reference and introduction to the subject for researchers. Within the past decade scientists, mathematicians and engineers have realized that a large variety of systems exhibit complicated evolution with time. This complicated behaviour, called chaos, occurs so frequently that it has become important for workers in many disciplines to have a good grasp of the fundamentals and basic tools of the emerging science of chaotic dynamics. The author's style is pedagogic, and the book will be of value both as a graduate text and also as a reference work for researchers in science and engineering needing to understand this important new subject. Homework problems are also included throughout the book.
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' ... provides a stimulating selection of topics ... His description provides an excellent, intuitive account of chaos, which is essential to developing scientists.' Nature 'Ott's book provides a stimulating selection of topics that could be taught a la carte in postgraduate courses ... He has managed to capture the beauty of this subject in a way that should motivate and inform the next generation of students in applied dynamical systems.' Nature
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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3 Tables, unspecified; 196 Line drawings, unspecified
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 177 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
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978-0-521-43799-8 (9780521437998)
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University of Maryland, College Park
1. Introduction and overview; 2. One-dimensional maps; 3. Strange attractors and fractal dimensions; 4. Dynamical properties of chaotic systems; 5. Non-attracting chaotic sets; 6. Quasiperiodicity; 7. Chaos in Hamiltonian systems; 8. Chaotic transitions; 9. Multifractals; 10. Quantum chaos; References.