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This book consists of lecture notes for a semester-long introductory graduate course on dynamical systems and chaos taught by the authors at Texas A&M University and Zhongshan University, China. There are ten chapters in the main body of the book, covering an elementary theory of chaotic maps in finite-dimensional spaces. The topics include one-dimensional dynamical systems (interval maps), bifurcations, general topological, symbolic dynamical systems, fractals and a class of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems which are induced by interval maps, plus rapid fluctuations of chaotic maps as a new viewpoint developed by the authors in recent years. Two appendices are also provided in order to ease the transitions for the readership from discrete-time dynamical systems to continuous-time dynamical systems, governed by ordinary and partial differential equations. Table of Contents: Simple Interval Maps and Their Iterations / Total Variations of Iterates of Maps / Ordering among Periods: The Sharkovski Theorem / Bifurcation Theorems for Maps / Homoclinicity. Lyapunoff Exponents / Symbolic Dynamics, Conjugacy and Shift Invariant Sets / The Smale Horseshoe / Fractals / Rapid Fluctuations of Chaotic Maps on RN / Infinite-dimensional Systems Induced by Continuous-Time Difference Equations
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Simple Interval Maps and Their Iterations
- Total Variations of Iterates of Maps
- Ordering among Periods: The Sharkovski Theorem
- Bifurcation Theorems for Maps
- Homoclinicity. Lyapunoff Exponents
- Symbolic Dynamics, Conjugacy and Shift Invariant Sets
- The Smale Horseshoe
- Fractals
- Rapid Fluctuations of Chaotic Maps on RN
- Infinite-dimensional Systems Induced by Continuous-Time Difference Equations
- Introduction to Continuous-Time Dynamical Systems
- Chaotic Vibration of the Wave Equation due to Energy Pumping and van der Pol Boundary Conditions
- Bibliography
- Authors' Biographies
- Index