An Introduction to Dynamical Systems - D. K. Arrowsmith

An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

By: D. K. Arrowsmith, C. H. Place, Arrowsmith/Place

Paperback | 8 September 1990

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Largely self-contained, this is an introduction to the mathematical structures underlying models of systems whose state changes with time, and which therefore may exhibit "chaotic behavior." The first portion of the book is based on lectures given at the University of London and covers the background to dynamical systems, the fundamental properties of such systems, the local bifurcation theory of flows and diffeomorphisms and the logistic map and area-preserving planar maps. The authors then go on to consider current research in this field such as the perturbation of area-preserving maps of the plane and the cylinder. The text contains many worked examples and exercises, many with hints. It will be a valuable first textbook for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics, physics, and engineering.
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' ... a book which can be recommended unreservedly ... the many exercises are particularly useful.' International Mathematical News

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