When new ideas like chaos first move into the mathematical limelight, the early textbooks tend to be very difficult. The concepts are new and it takes time to find ways to present them in a form digestible to the average student. This process may take a generation, but eventually, what originally se...

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Main Author:	Banks, John 1957- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003
Series:	Australian Mathematical Society lecture series 18
Subjects:	Mathematik Differentiable dynamical systems Chaotic behavior in systems / Mathematics Dynamisches System Chaotisches System
Online Access:	BSB01 FHN01 Volltext
Summary:	When new ideas like chaos first move into the mathematical limelight, the early textbooks tend to be very difficult. The concepts are new and it takes time to find ways to present them in a form digestible to the average student. This process may take a generation, but eventually, what originally seemed far too advanced for all but the most mathematically sophisticated becomes accessible to a much wider readership. This book takes some major steps along that path of generational change. It presents ideas about chaos in discrete time dynamics in a form where they should be accessible to anyone who has taken a first course in undergraduate calculus. More remarkably, it manages to do so without discarding a commitment to mathematical substance and rigour. The book evolved from a very popular one-semester middle level undergraduate course over a period of several years and has therefore been well class-tested
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 294 pages)
ISBN:	9781139174565
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139174565