About this title: This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus, Cambridge, MA.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780201543445ISBN:0201543443
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Comprehensive highly acclaimed text presents detailed coverage of analytical methods, contnuous and discrete processes plus fractals, phase plane analysis, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, Lorenz equations, etc. Emphasis is on applications in several areas of science, which include mechanical vibrations, biological rhythms, insect outbreaks, lasers, chemical oscillators, chaotic waterwheels, superconducting circuits, coding, and genetic control ... read more
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