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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Chaos Analysis and Mathematics of the Phenomenon 1998 Edition by Hiroyuki Nagashima, Yoshikazu Baba
This textbook is a basic introduction to chaos. It is written primarily for advanced undergraduate students in science but postgraduate students and researchers in mathematics, physics and other areas of science will also find the book useful. The authors concentrate on explaining the fundamentals of the subject by studying examples from one-dimensional maps and simple differential equations. Table of contents : - What is chaos? Li-Yorke chaos, topological entropy and Lyapunov number; route toward chaos; chaos in realistic systems; appendix; solutions to the problems.