An Introduction to Dynamical Systems
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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An Introduction to Dynamical Systems
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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An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

by D. K. Arrowsmith, C. M. Place
An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

by D. K. Arrowsmith, C. M. Place

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521316507
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/27/1990
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 6.81(w) x 9.72(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Diffeomorphisms and flows; 2. Local properties of flow and diffeomorphims; 3. Structural stability, hyperbolicity and homoclinic points; 4. Local bifurcations I: planar vector fields and diffeomorphisms on R; 5. Local bifurcations II: diffeomorphisms on R2; 6. Area-preserving maps and their perturbations; Hints for exercises; References; Index.
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