2nd Edition

Dynamical Systems Stability, Symbolic Dynamics, and Chaos

By Clark Robinson Copyright 1999
524 Pages
by CRC Press

520 Pages
by CRC Press

Several distinctive aspects make Dynamical Systems unique, including: treating the subject from a mathematical perspective with the proofs of most of the results included providing a careful review of background materials introducing ideas through examples and at a level accessible to a beginning graduate student focusing on multidimensional systems of real variables The book treats the... Read more
Introduction
One Dimensional Dynamics by Iteration
Chaos and Its Measurement
Linear Systems
Analysis near Fixed Points and Periodic Orbits
Hamiltonian Systems
Bifurcation of Periodic Points
Examples of Hyperbolic Sets and Attractors
Measurement of Chaos in Higher Dimensions
Global Theory of Hyperbolic Systems
Generic Properties
Smoothness of Stable Manifolds and Applications

Biography

Clark Robinson

"…was impressed with the teachability of this text and with the exercises at the end of each chapter, which seemed be nicely graded in difficulty."
-D. Givoli, APPLIED MECHANICS REVIEWS